This htm version produced by Thierry Alberto, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (www.canadiana.org)) LYRICS OF EARTH BY ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN BOSTON COPELAND AND DAY MDCCCXCV Copyright by Copeland and Day, 1895. CONTENTS TO MY MOTHER Mother, to whose valiant will, Battling long ago, What the heaping years fulfil, Light and song, I owe; Send my little book a-field, Fronting praise or blame With the shining flag and shield Of your name. [5] THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE