Prairie Gold

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Iowa Press and Authors' Club. Prairie Gold

Prairie Gold

Table of Contents

The Graven Image

Masterpieces

Bread

At Kamakura: 1917

That Iowa Town

But Once a Year

The Reminder

"Old Bill"

The Recruit's Story

The Happiest Man in I-O-Way

The Captured Dream

Truth

Work

Some Magic and a Moral

Sonny's Wish

Dog

The Unredeemed

Tinkling Cymbals

The First Laugh

The Freighter's Dream

A Box From Home

The Spirit of Spring

Work Is a Blessing

September

The Poet of the Future

Putting the Stars with the Bars

The Kings of Saranazett

The Old Cane Mill

The Queer Little Thing

An American Wake

Rochester, Minn

God's Back Yard

The Wild Crab Apple

A Ballad of the Corn

The Children's Blessing

Kitchener's Mob

The Professor

My Baby's Horse

The Call of the Race

One Wreath of Rue

Woodrow Wilson and Wells, War's Great Authors

A Field

Your Lad, and My Lad

Peace and Then—?

Semper Fidelis

Our Bird Friends

A Load of Hay

Iowa as a Literary Field

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Published by Good Press, 2020

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It was all so wonderful, so moving to Roger that he remained before it a long time, absorbed, marveling, exultant. Safe against the years he seemed now, and yet, as he gazed, his pleasure grew into a pain, so vividly did the chiseled stone bring back the grace he had known. Close upon the exultant thought: "Now she can never fade from my memory," came the reflection that his little son would never know how like to his mother this image was. "He will know only the cold marble—his mother will not even be a memory."

One sixth day morning in the eighth month word was brought to Nicholas Asche, leader of the Meeting, that Roger Barnes was about to erect a graven image among the low headstones of the burial grounds, and in amazement and indignation the old man hastened that way.

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