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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Story of Songs from the Medford Woods. (search)
poem, greatly changed, appeared in the little volume named Child Life, edited by the poet, John G. Whittier. Friends immediately recognized it, however, as the thoughts of Carrie Smith, as she was familiarly known, and wrote Whittier concerning it. Some correspondence followed, and the poet wrote Miss Smith, saying the poem had been sent in manuscript form to him by a friend, and at the end of tt seemed not complete and some of the lines defective, and supposing it to be his friend's, he (Whittier) re-wrote and amplified it and signed it as anonymous. Only after printing it had he learned ias Clara instead of Carrie Smith. Here is her poem, and beside it is the poem as accredited to Whittier, appearing in 1871. Jack-in-the-pulpit. Jack, in his pulpit, Preaches today, Under the greely illustrated in color, and attached was a copy of a letter giving credit to Carrie Smith, as Whittier did not wish to claim the originality of the idea. A book of the poem, with the flowers prin