Copyrighted, 1921,

BY

MARIE BANKHEAD OWEN

Dedicated

TO MY FATHER

William Marmaduke Owen,

Physician

and

TO MY FATHER-IN-LAW

John Hollis Bankhead,

Statesman

Unfailing and sympathetic friends in all my efforts

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Little, little, can I give thee,
Alabama, mother mine;

But that little-hand, brain, spirit,
All I have and am are thine,

Take, O take the gift and giver,
Take and serve thyself with me,
Alabama, Alabama,

I will aye be true to thee!

From "Alabama," by Julia S. Tutwiler.