Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 425
Mistress Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow ? With silver bells and cockle shells.And maidens all a row. 398 POLL TADPOLE. [May. POLL TADPOLE. (A Swamp Ballad.) By Rose Terry Cooke. … There was a little pollywog,The sprawling baby of a frog,Hatched in a green and slimy bog One pleasant day.He had a puddle of his own.To play and sleep in, all alone.And dull as any other drone He passed his life away. Sometimes a steel-blue dragon-flyWould poise a moment in his sky,And look at him…
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