Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 631
Drooping still lower,Hopeless and faint. But down fell the twilight,And up came the Dew, Whispring, Dear Bluebell,We re sorry for you. We are not strong, Like the Rain or the River,But never a flower faints For help we can give her. By thousands and thousands,The Summer night through, Silently… … I WAS a boy, living in the West, when the cruisewas taken; and the Crusoe was my boat, acanoe just big enough for one sailor. She wasdecked all over, except an oblong hole in the mid-dle where the sailor sat. There was a piece ofrubber cloth to buckle around his waist, over thehole ; so that if a…
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