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Sent:   Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:23 AM
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Subject:    [SPAM] [Robbinsfamilysouthjersey] Leonard Harman Robbins, Jr.


Does anyone know of this man? I was given his book "Jersey Jingles" &
will post a couple of his poems after his biography.

Leonard Harman Robbins, Jr. was born April 2, 1877 in Lincoln,
Nebraska to Leonard Harman Robbins, Sr. a physician who was born in
Illinois. Leonard Harman Robbins, Jr. married Lena Anthony around
1903. She was born June 1877 in Iowa to Jacob & Mary Anthony of
Eureka Township, Adair. Co., Iowa. Leonard & Lena Robbins had two
children Ruth & Anthony. Leonard Robbins moved to Princeton, NJ about
1898 & was traveling from NJ as a newspaper reporter to England,
Scotland, Norway & Denmark. By 1901 he was employed as a newspaper
editor for the Newark Evening News. While working for the Newark
newspaper he published a book of poems "Jersey Jingles" in 1907. Mr.
Robbins said "the poems were composed as part of a day's work in a
busy newspaper office, and were not meant to be literary."

    THE MORNING LIGHT

Cherry-tree, all white & snowy,
        Came in blossom in the night;
Bare at sunset, pure & snowy
        In the morning light.

So do troubles, hard to carry
        In the weary heart at night,
Bloom with hope, just like the cherry,
        In the morning light.

ALWAYS

Always new life
       In the cold, drifted lawn;
Always new flowers
      When winter is gone.

Always a smile
       For the tear you have shed;
Always a hope
       For the hope that is dead.

Always an end
       To the weariest lane;
Always a blessing,
      Whatever the pain.

                                 Sara