eyes, bent downhis beautiful head, and listened to the sweetprattle. Then the dragon-fly told much of the merrylife in the green wood — how sometimes she playedhide-and-seek with her playfellows under thebroad leaves of the oak and the beech trees orhunt-the-hare along the surface of the still… … Then the dragon-fly told of the merry life in the green wood glided softly around the wood, and dropped dewinto the mouths of all the thirsty plants; and whenthe dawn pelted the slumberers with the softroses of heaven, some of the flowers looked upand smiled, but most of them could not so muchas…
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