POEMS OF LIFE POEMS OF LIFE POEMS OF LIFE By KATHARINE FORREST HAMILL PHILADELPHIA PETER REILLY, PUBLISHER 133 N. THIRTEENTH STREET 1915 Copyright 1915, by Peter Reilly Published July, 1915 FIRST IMPRESSION Copyright 1915, by Peter Reilly Published July, 1915 TO GRACE BARTLETT STRYKER Words fail me when I strive to say What you’ve meant to me—for so long a day Hope—Inspiration—Sympathy. Steadfast and true, whate’er might be. O priv’lege rarest to the end As in the past, to call you—friend. AUTHOR’S NOTE The poems contained within the following pages are children of the brain which at intervals obtruded their company, and which, such as they are, at the solicitation of my friends, I have ventured to set down. K. F. H. CONTENTS POEMS OF LIFE TO-DAY THE Yesterdays we might have called our own