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Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)

Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 423

An illustration from Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children, 1922, leaf 423 — f rails were softened to swans-down, And still fluttered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work of the sky.And the sudden flurries of snowbirds. Like brown leaves whirling by. I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn Where a little headstone stood;How the flakes were… … Again I looked at the snowfall, And thought of the leaden sky-That arched oer our first great sorrow, When that mound was heaped so high. I remembered the gradual patienceThat fell from that cloud like snow, Flake by flake, healing and hidingThe scar of our deep-plunged woe. And again to the child…

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