Inscription to Nixon Waterman

Dear Nixon Waterman, I send

     My little book to you.

I hope its colors will not make

     You feel red white and blue.

Of course, I realize full well

     You’ll never read it through;

But then, dear boy, you see you’ll have

     A book that’s always new.

Dec. 28, ‘99

Nixon Waterman (12 November 1859, Newark, Kendall County, Illinois - 1 September 1944, Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts) was a newspaper writer, poet and Chautauqua lecturer, who rose to prominence in the 1890s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Waterman