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Chimes for childhood (1868)

[Estes, Dana], 1840-1909, comp · Boston, Lee and Shepart · leaf 116

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ay to the woodland scene.Where wanders the stream with waters of green.As if the bright fringe of herbs on its brinkHad given their stain to the wave they drink ;And they whose meadows it murmurs throughHave named the stream from its own fair hue.Yet pure its waters — its shallows are brightWith… … Lonely —save nv/ien, by thy rippling- tides,From thicket to thicket the angler glides.(111). 112 GREEN RIVER. Through whose shifting leaves, as you walk the hillThe quivering glimmer of sun and rill,With a sudden flash on the eye is thrown,Like the ray that streams from the diamond-stone,Oh,…

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