Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 31
he little voice repeated inthey wasnt so very big. The little head fell sleep, I did nt know he was a kind man. NIKOLINA.By Celia Thaxter. O TELL me, little children, have you seen her—The tiny maid from Norway, Nikolina ?O, her eyes are blue as cornflowers mid the corn,And her cheeks are rosy red… … Nikolina ! Swift she turns if any call her. As she stands among the poppies hardly taller, Breaking off their scarlet cups for you, With spikes of slender larkspur, burning blue. In her little garden many a flower is growing—Red, gold, and purple in the soft wind blowing;But the child that stands…
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