Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 24
in for help,while the mocking wavescrept higher and higher.We faced death, then, everyone of us. A few inchesof slippery rock stood be-tween us and the end of thebeautiful world that smiledaround us. The tide crepton and on, stood still, andsunk away inch by inch untilwe were free! We crawledalong… … ^ OH, NO! If blue-birds bloomed like flowers in a row.And never could make a sound, How would the daisies and violets know-When to come out of the ground! They would wait and wait the seasons round:Never a flower could on earth be found. And what would birds and butterflies do If the flowers had…
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