Transcribed from the 1919 Gay and Hancock edition by DavidPrice,

POEMS OF OPTIMISM

BY

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

GAY AND HANCOCK, LTD.

34 HENRIETTASTREET, COVENT GARDEN

LONDON

1919

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p.ivN.B.—The only volumes of my Poems issuedwith my approval in the British Empire are published by Messrs.Gay & Hancock.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Published 1913

Reprinted 1915, 1918,1919

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