MY MOTHER THINKS THE TITLE IS YOUNG wASHINGTON. It starts Tie the moccasin, bind the pask. Anyone know the actual title or author. Melinda

This one? "Washington at Twenty-One" page 260

The mirthful lyre - Arthur Guiterman - Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=Dk8TAAAAYAAJ&q=moccasins&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=6#v=snippet&q=moccasins&f=false)

Click on the poem's title to read it.

You can obtain a copy of the book of poems by requesting it at the reference desk of your local public library. They will interlibrary loan it for you. Give them the following bibliographical record (they will need the OCLC at the bottom):

The mirthful lyre / Arthur Guiterman
1918
English : Fiction xv, 288 p. ; 20 cm.
New York ; London : Harper & Brothers,
Libraries worldwide that own item: 155
Title: The mirthful lyre /
Author(s): Guiterman, Arthur, 1871-1943.
Publication: New York ; London : Harper & Brothers,
Year: 1918
Description: xv, 288 p. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: LCCN: 18-19169
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Poetry.
Note(s): Reprinted in part from various periodicals.
Class Descriptors: LC: PS3513.U7; Dewey: 811
Responsibility: Arthur Guiterman.
Vendor Info: Kirtas Technologies, Inc. (KRTS)
Material Type: Fiction (fic)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 19750729
Update: 20100702
Accession No: OCLC: 1487539
Database: WorldCat