1816-1916 Cedarville Centennial Souvenir

Wilbur D. Nesbit, the poet, though born in Xenia, was reared in Cedarville, and has a genuine muse. He has diligently cultivated his poetic talents and is fast gaining a reputation with his muse, of which the people of Cedarville are justly proud. He has sung himself into their hearts, and, without college culture or scholastic training, his idylls have given him a place with Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, and Will Carleton, and causes rhymsters and literary dabblers and critics to stand aside and take off their hats .in recognition of his worth. He plays with the emotions of the human soul as genuinely as David did with the strings of the harp. He has publisht several volumes of poems which would grace the shelves of any library. Here is his latest, written especially for this booklet: WILBUR D.~NESBIT WHEN WE COME BACK HOME When we come back home-when we come back home! 0, the weary roads we travel and the alien lands we roam, Till one day there comes a murmur of a half-forgotten song, And we think about the orchards and the streets where we belong, And the friends we left behind us, and the golden days of yore- Then the world grows all the better, for we're going home once more.