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As a 1914 Christmas offering, Margaret Perkins, a Hutchinson High School teacher, gave us her volume of beautiful poems. "The Love Letters of a Norman Princess" is the love story, in verse, of Hersilie, a ward and relative of William, The Conqueror, and Eric, a kinsman of the unfortunate King Harold.
"I thought once, in a dream, that Love came near / With silken flutter of empurpled wings / That wafted faint, strange fragrance from the things / Abloom where age and season never sear. / The joy of mating birds was in my ear, / And flamed my path with dancing daffodils / Whose splendor melted into greening hills / Upseeking, like my spirit, to revere."