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EBOOK POETS AND POETRY ***
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THE
POETS AND POETRY
OF
CECIL COUNTY, MARYLAND
COLLECTED AND EDITED BY
GEORGE JOHNSTON,
AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF CECIL COUNTY.
A verse may finde him whom a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.
--Herbert.
ELKTON, MD:
PUBLISHED BY THE EDITOR.
1887
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by
GEORGE JOHNSTON,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
PREFACE.
This volume owes its existence to the desire of some of the teachers and
pupils of the public schools in the northeastern part of Cecil county,
to do honor to the memory of the late School Commissioner David Scott.
Shortly after Mr. Scott's death, some of the parties referred to,
proposed to collect enough money by voluntary contributions to erect a
monument over his grave, in order to perpetuate his memory, and also to
show the high regard in which he was held by them. This project being
brought to the knowledge of the editor, he ventured to express the
opinion that the best monument Mr. Scott could have, would be the
collection and publication of his poems in book form.
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