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Famous Single Poems

Park, Illinois, at the home of a Mrs. M. L. Rayne, with whom she apparently had a friendship of long standing, since Mrs. Rayne included one of her poems in a book entitled What Can a Woman Do? published twenty years previously. Mrs. Rayne’s daughter, Mrs. Lulu G. Niles, of Oak Park, gives the following information:

I do not know when or where Mrs. Case was born. She died when she was a little over seventy years old, and I am quite sure it was in Baltimore. In a short introduction before a poem among others in my mother's book, What Can a Woman Do? [Detroit, 1884], my mother wrote:

“Mrs. Lizzie York Case is a Southern lady, a resident of Baltimore and vicinity for many years, and at present living at Mobile, Alabama, where her husband, Lieutenant Madison J. Case, is stationed in the service of the United States navy. Mrs. Case is descended from Quaker ancestry, and much of the grace and versatility of character she possesses is derived from that source. Many of her poems have been published in household collections and school readers, and are much admired for their high educational standard.”

The poem under the foregoing was “Faith and Reason.” This was in 1884, and her poem, “There Is No Unbelief,” was written many years later, I believe. Mrs. Case had it printed on cards that were sent out to many of her friends. I cannot believe that she would have done this if she had not been

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