To The Dead:
Reverently Inscribed
--To the Indiana-Born
World-Wide Poet--
--James Whitcomb Riley--
--This Spray Of Kentucky Pine--
To The Living:
Also Lovingly Inscribed
By The Man From Down
On The Farm To The
Dear Lady Here On The
Banks Of Wolf Run
--His Mother--
On Grateful Commemoration
Of Her Eighty-Fifth Birthday
August 20, 1916