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 Three of these, it will be noted, are New Year’s poems, their subject-matter being the usual banal moralizing, without any hint of poetic thought. The others show some skill at versification, and a happy phrase or two, but the only one which possesses even a germ of what may truly be termed poetry is the shortest of all:

The earliest discoverable book publication of “There Is No Unbelief” is in a little volume called Flowers by the Wayside, which appeared at Columbus, Ohio, in 1892. Two poems signed by Mrs. Case are included. One is “No Unbelief,” of which only five stanzas are given,