Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 325
a lot of young ones—she istoo good a housekeeper for that; so the poor littlethings go drifting about for a while, as if they didnot know what to do. Part of them are pretty sureto fall a prey to some voracious animal, while theremainder become attached to some water-plant,where they soon grow to… … If there were a ladder, mother, Between the earth and sky,As in the days of the Bible, I would bid you all good-bye,And go through every country. And search from town to town,Till I had found the ladder, With angels coming down. Then I would wait, quite softly,Beside the lowest round,Till the…
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