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The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)

Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 457

An illustration from The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language, 1910, leaf 457 — Y. OR SOLITTTDE. Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray:And, when I crossed the wild,I chanced to see at break of dayThe solitary child. No mate, no comrade Lucy knew ;She dwelt on a wide moor, —The sweetest thing that ever grewBeside a human door ! You yet may spy the fawn at play,The hare upon the green… … At thiN the father raised his hook. And snapped a fagot-band ; He plied liis work ; — and Lucy tookTlie lantern in her hand. Not blither is the mountain roe:With many a wanton strokeHer feet disperse the powdery snow,That rises up like smoke. The storm came on before its time :She wandered up and…

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