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 339
314 Pippa Passes unsuspecting girl and retaining the property thatis rightly hers. Eager to gain the bishops consent,he cries sharply, Is it a bargain? Just at thatmoment, Pippa passes, all unconscious of the ter-rible fate that is threatening her. From the street below rises in clear tones… … OVERHEAD THE TREE-TOPS MEET Overhead the tree-tops meet,Flowers and grass spring neath ones feet;There was nought above me, nought below,My childhood had not learned to know;For what are the voices of birds—Ay, and of beasts—but words, our words,Only so much more sweet?The knowledge of that with my…
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