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Collection of songs, poems, speeches, sayings and other writings.;America. Columbus / Joaquin Miller -- Hiawathas childhood / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Hiawathas sailing / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The landing of the pilgrim fathers / Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- The inscription on Plymouth rock monument -- A rule -- George Washington and the cherry tree / Mason Locke Weems -- Here is my creed / Benjamin Franklin -- Sayings of Poor Richard / Benjamin Franklin -- Yankee doodle / Anonymous -- Be courteous to all / George Washington -- Give me liberty, or give me death / Patrick Henry -- These are the times that try mens souls / Thomas Paine -- Paul Reveres ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Warrens address / John Pierpont -- The declaration of independence -- On freedom of thought / Samuel Adams -- To the American troops before the battle of Long Island / George Washington -- Nathan Hale / Francis Miles Finch -- Song of Marions men / William Cullen Bryant -- Nathan Hale said -- The rapid progress of true science / Benjamin Franklin -- Let us raise a standard / George Washington -- Preamble to the constitution of the United States -- The American flag / Joseph Rodman Drake -- America / Samuel Francis Smith -- First in war, first in peace / Henry Lee -- The inscription at Mount Vernon -- Fourth of July ode / James Russell Lowell -- Thomas Jefferson said -- Hail, Columbia / Joseph Hopkinson -- Your country / Edward Everett Hale -- Well, did you hear? / Edmund Vance Cooke -- Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The first Morgan / Marguerite Henry -- The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key -- Henry Clay said -- The Monroe doctrine / James Monroe -- A letter from the Alamo / William Barret Travis -- Motto / David Crockett -- God grants liberty / Daniel Webster -- A life on the ocean wave / Epes Sargent -- Let us be of good cheer / James Russell Lowell -- Lost forever / Horace Mann -- The wilderness is tamed / Elizabeth J. Coatsworth -- O mother of a mighty race / William Cullen Bryant -- The old oaken bucket / Samuel Woodworth -- Riches / Henry David Thoreau -- Go confidently! / Henry David Thoreau -- Old folks at home / Stephen Foster -- Old Kentucky home / Stephen Foster -- I went to the woods / Henry David Thoreau -- Sayings of Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Liberty and union / Daniel Webster -- The constitution / Salmon Portland Chase -- The Bible / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Or make a better mousetrap / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Be noble! / James Russell Lowell -- The axis of the earth / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- A nations strength / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Wendell Phillips said -- Sail on, o ship of state! / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- They are slaves who fear / James Russell Lowell -- The days demand / Josiah Gilbert Holland -- Once to every man and nation / James Russell Lowell -- The arsenal at Springfield / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The eternal struggle / Abraham Lincoln -- Our country, right or wrong / Carl Schurz -- Sayings of Abraham Lincoln -- Nancy Hanks / Rosemary Bent -- Dixie / Daniel Decatur Emmett -- Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Battle-hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Three hundred thousand more / James Sloane Gibbons -- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Sheridans ride / Thomas Buchanan Read -- The Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincolns letter to Mrs. Bixby -- From the second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- Robert E. Lees farewell to his army -- War / William Tecumseh Sherman -- Truth, the invincible / William Cullen Bryant -- O captain! My captain / Walt Whitman -- When Johnny comes marching home / Patrick S. Gilmore -- The blue and the gray / Francis Miles Finch -- The national flag / Charles Sumner -- I am an American / Elias Lieberman -- The steady gain of man / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Judge not / Joaquin Miller -- Boston / Anonymous -- To achieve greatness / Walt Whitman -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- The great melting pot / Israel Zangwill -- So when a great man dies / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Ive been workin on the railroad / Anonymous -- Go west, young man! / Horace Greeley -- Home on the range / Anonymous -- Out where the west begins / Arthur Chapman -- Bury me not on the lone prairie / Anonymous -- Wisdom / James Russell Lowell -- Miracles / Walt Whitman -- Poetry / Emily Dickinson -- In ourselves / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The hands of toil / James Russell Lowell -- American for me / Henry van Dyke -- The village blacksmith / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Opportunity / John James Ingalls -- The wheel that squeaks / Henry Wheeler Shaw (Josh Billings) -- My symphony / William Henry Channing -- An open wood-fire / Thomas Baily Aldrich -- Advice to writers for the daily press / Joel Chandler Harris -- Living / Anonymous -- Puddnhead Wilsons calendar / Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) -- The pessimist / Ben King -- The house by the side of the road / Sam Walter Foss -- Four things / Henry van Dyke -- Life, a question / Corinne Roosevelt Robinson -- Do you fear the wind? / Hamlin Garland -- To the boys of America / Theodore Roosevelt -- The flag goes by / Henry Holcomb Bennett -- We stand at Armageddon / Theodore Roosevelt -- Theodore Roosevelt said -- Woodrow Wilson said -- Congress is asked to declare war / Woodrow Wilson -- The marines song / Anonymous -- The caisson song / Edmund L. Gruber -- Our country / Anna Louise Dabney -- Words for army bugle calls / Anonymous -- The American creed / William Tyler Page -- Inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier -- Condensed history lesson / Charles A. Beard -- I believe / John D. Rockefeller, Jr. -- The four freedoms / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- America the beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates.;Youth. Aladdin / James Russell Lowell -- Bird music / Donald Culross Peattie -- April rain / Robert Loveman -- Duty / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- A book / Emily Dickinson -- Autumn / Emily Dickinson -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- A bakers duzzen uv wize sawz / Edward Rowland Sill -- The modern Hiawatha / George A. Strong -- Barter / Sara Teasdale -- Nonsense jingles / Anonymous -- For of all sad words / John Greenleaf Whittier -- En voyage / Caroline Atwater Mason -- Eternal partnership / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- For Christmas / Rachel Field -- The day is done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The first snow-fall / James Russell Lowell -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- The bells / Edgar Allan Poe -- Eulogy of the dog / George G. Vest -- Fathers education / Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) -- Fer a dog / Edward Noyes Westcott -- How to tell bad news / Anonymous -- Forbearance / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The height of the ridiculous / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The melancholy days / William Cullen Bryant -- June / James Russell Lowell -- The arrow and the song / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Jingle bells / John Pierpont -- Limericks -- Home, sweet home / John Howard Payne -- A little word / Daniel Clement Colesworthy -- The ladder / Josiah Gilbert Holland -- Now / Charles R. Skinner -- In school-days / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Look up / Edward Everett Hale -- The old swimmin-hole / James Whitcomb Riley -- Octobers bright blue weather / Helen Hunt Jackson -- The pert chicken / Marian Douglas -- On digital extremities / Gelett Burgess -- Home / Edgar A. Guest -- Primer lesson / Carl Sandburg -- Lend a hand / Anonymous -- The forest primeval / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The pasture / Robert Frost -- Out to old Aunt Marys / James Whitcomb Riley -- Rock me to sleep / Elizabeth Akers Allen -- Snow-bound / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Our lips and ears / Anonymous -- Solitude / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Speak gently / David Bates -- Opportunity / Berton Braley -- The rainy day / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The stars / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Counters / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Sunset on the bearcamp / John Greenleaf Whittier -- It couldnt be done / Edgar A. Guest -- Ships that pass in the night / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant -- Trees / Joyce Kilmer -- Pedigree / Emily Dickinson -- When the frost is on the punkin / James Whitcomb Riley -- Wheneer a noble deed is wrought / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The snow storm / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- What is good? / John Boyle OReilly -- There is always a best way / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Success / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- What do we plant? / Henry Abbey -- Roads / Rachel Field -- The mills of God / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- There is no frigate like a book / Emily Dickinson -- Worth while / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Woodman, spare that tree / George Pope Morris -- The old friend / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Whittling / John Pierpont -- Salute to our flag -- The Boy Scout oath -- The Girl Scout promise.;Childhood. Adventure / Anonymous -- The ambitious mouse / John Farrar -- It was / Dorothy Aldis -- The daughter at evening / Robert Nathan -- The brown thrush / Lucy Larcom -- Animal crackers / Christopher Morley -- My nose / Dorothy Aldis -- The difference / Laura Elizabeth Richards -- The little elf-man / John Kendrick Bangs -- A boy and his dog / Edgar A. Guest --The childrens hour / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Good night / Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Peter Parley) -- We thank thee / Anonymous -- The barefoot boy / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The dinkey-bird / Eugene Field -- There was a little girl / Anonymous -- Little things / Ebenezer Cobham Brewer -- The origin of the forget-me-not / Emily Bruce Roelofson -- The hens / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- The duel / Eugene Field -- Four-leaf clover / Ella Higginson -- Injun summer / John T. McCutcheon -- To the dandelion / James Russell Lowell -- Beautiful / Anonymous -- Persevere / Anonymous -- Little Gustava / Celia Thaxter -- Little Boy Blue / Eugene Field -- Is there a Santa Claus? / Francis Pharcellus Church -- Jest fore Christmas / Eugene Field -- Little Orphant Annie / James Whitcomb Riley -- The rock-a-by lady / Eugene Field -- The little people / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The elf and the dormouse / Oliver Herford -- Baby-land / George Cooper -- Our hired girl / James Whitcomb Riley -- The raggedy man / James Whitcomb Riley -- Tall oaks from little acorns / David Everett -- The mountain and the squirrel / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- A mortifying mistake / Anna Maria Pratt -- The rabbit / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Work while you work / Anonymous -- Marys lamb / Sarah Josepha Hale -- The new moon / Eliza Lee Follen -- The purple cow / Frank Gelett Burgess -- A wise old owl / Edward Hersey Richards -- Thanksgiving day / Lydia Maria Child -- The young mystic / Louis Untermeyer -- Seein things / Eugene Field -- The wind and the leaves / George Cooper -- Merry sunshine / Anonymous -- The sugar-plum tree / Eugene Field -- The three little kittens / Eliza Lee Follen -- Robert of Lincoln / William Cullen Bryant -- The sandman / Margaret Vandegrift (Margaret Thomson Janvier) -- The railway train / Emily Dickinson -- Little William / Anonymous -- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod : a Dutch lullaby / Eugene Field -- The runaway / Robert Frost -- Try, try again / T.H. Palmer -- Sunset / Anonymous -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore -- Ten little Injuns / Anonymous -- The green grass growing all around / Anonymous.

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A Beautiful Beginning
D.J. Monroe
(2014)

Tags:Kindle Free Program, Romance

This two-book bundle is a prequel to the bestselling gay romance novel Back to Beautiful.
It is not a standalone story.

Book 1: Spencer Burbank screws up everything he touches. His family, his relationships, everything. So when his boyfriend Bailey gets hurt, hes determined to make it right. The problem is, he cant. Hes been hiding their relationship for too long. Now Spencer is backed into a corner either face the wrath of his homophobic father and get Bailey the help he needs, or take matters into his own hands.

Book 2: Bailey Kaufmann thinks hes lost the only guy he ever loved until Spencer shows up on his doorstep one afternoon - with a baby. Spencers demons still haunt him, and the added stress of a newborn puts a serious strain on the life theyre trying to build. Bailey wants to help, but the baggage Spencer carries might just crush them both.

A Beautiful Beginning

DJ Monroe

Published by ButtonFly Books, 2014.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

A BEAUTIFUL BEGINNING

First edition. June 26, 2014.

Copyright 2014 DJ Monroe.

Written by DJ Monroe.

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Table of Contents

A Beautiful Beginning

Book One
Chapter 1

S pencer shoved in the kitchen drawer with a fairly loud crash, which he ignored, and rushed across the slick marble floor to the pantry. He had to find his mothers crystal candlesticks. Bailey would be here soon, and everything had to be perfect.

Standing in the tiny, barely illuminated space and biting his lip, he scanned the shelves and tried to think where they might be, but he was drawing a complete blank. The last time hed seen them they were on the sideboard in the massive dining room, but that had been almost a year ago.

It didnt help that he was putting too much pressure on himself, just like he always did.

After the funeral, her things had started to disappear. Spencer blamed his father. The man had been a complete bear since then, and hed probably sold it all. Spencer hoped not, hoped that the delicate candlesticks that he had bought her himself, on her fortieth birthday, were still around and stashed somewhere.

A small surge of anger toward his dad distracted him for a moment, but he pushed it away. Bailey would be here in less than an hour, and Spencer was getting frustrated.

They werent anywhere. He left the pantry and slammed the door behind him, almost smacking into his father as he came around the corner of the kitchen.

Why the hell are you in such a hurry? James Burbank asked, frowning at Spencers clumsiness. Or at least, frowning more than usual.

Spencer looked at the floor. Looking for something, he mumbled, silently praying dont ask what, dont ask why. Dont ask, dont ask...

James didnt ask. Well, slow the hell down. He brushed past Spencer and kept going, not turning to see the glare that Spencer aimed at his back.

Spencer rubbed his palms on his jeans and sighed quietly in an attempt to slow down his slamming heart. His father knew nothing about his relationship with Bailey beyond a normal high school friendship, and Spencer needed to keep it that way.

James Burbank had a problem with homos .

He wondered if the candlesticks might be in the attic and started up the stairs but Jason, his little brother, interrupted him at the top. You look like youre having a heart attack, he said, his thirteen-year-old voice still squeaking a little.

Do you know where moms candlesticks are? The crystal ones we got her for her birthday?

Jason shook his head. Nope. Why?

I just...thought theyd look nice in the dining room. Spencer made a mental note to put the candlesticks in the dining room after tonight.

Jason shot him a sneer. For who? We dont even use the dining room.

Spencer just shrugged, stepped around the shorter boy and kept going, not giving him a chance to ask more questions.

Halfway along the hall, he stopped and veered toward a door on his left. He knew exactly where they were. Spencer, Jason, and their housekeeper Mary had rescued what they could from his fathers selling spree and boxed everything up to keep in his mothers sewing room.

He twisted the knob on the thick oak door and almost fell inside.

The room was soft with evening light it was one of the reasons his mother had insisted on spending time in here. She loved the sunshine, and this room caught most of it, all through the day. It smelled like her perfume, too something with jasmine in the name. Spencer swallowed the edge of sorrow and went to where the boxes were stacked under the window.

He almost cut his finger getting the first one open, but the candlesticks were right on top. Well, two of them were. There had been six originally, but he didnt have time to look for the others. These would have to do.

He went downstairs, using the back stairway to avoid James, and headed for the treehouse.

Bailey would be meeting him here anytime.

The treehouse was huge one of those projects that James had dreamed up to keep the boys out of his hair. It was practically a two-bedroom house, perched in the branches of one of the eighty year old oaks at the back of the property. The structure even had a bathroom, with pipes running up along the back part of the tree. Spencer climbed up, not taking time to enjoy the view of the lake beyond. There would be time for that after Bailey got here.

He found the other supplies a tablecloth, the cupcakes that Mary had made for them - along with candles - and Baileys present, then set about making it all perfect.

He wanted to make Bailey happy, he thought as he kicked old sports equipment and clothes out of sight under one of the bunks. It was the only thing he cared about these days.

He and Bailey had been best friends before they were lovers. In fact, he was probably Spencers first real friend. They met when James had forced him to join a sports team whichever one he wanted, just as long as he joined one. It was good for business, he said.

Spencer hated sports, but it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to him, because of Bailey.

Shy, not-very-athletic Spencer chose basketball, because football was gross and track was boring. He dismissed the other sports for similar reasons, even though hed been pretty good at baseball. Bailey had been on the basketball team too, though, and that was the beginning.

When Spencer started talking about his real feelings, trying hard to figure out why he didnt like girls, Bailey had been there to listen. When Spencer started asking questions about his sexuality, Bailey had been there to share his own experience, talking him through the agony and fear of being different and telling his own story.

It wasnt much of a step for them to become lovers. Bailey was the first thing in his life to make him truly, deeply happy. He was smart, funny in a sweet, quiet way, and he was the hottest guy that Spencer had ever seen.

They were meant to be together, Spencer could feel it.

He finished putting everything together and lit the candles, then dragged a chair to the window to wait. He could see out over the full expanse of their two acre lawn, but he didnt bother taking in the view. His foot bounced as he waited and watched the rear corner of the fence, where Bailey would sneak through.

This night was special, and he was determined to make it perfect, if only to see Baileys beautiful smile. He lived for that smile.

Chapter 2

S pencer sat up straighter when he caught a glimpse of red in the field beyond the fence, a stupid grin spreading across his face. He wanted Bailey to be impressed, and happy. He wanted him to enjoy his eighteenth birthday and the present hed bought. It was a big day, and Spencer felt honored that Bailey would sneak away from his own party the one his family was throwing for him to be with him.

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