Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 406
ly one With wisdom supremely blest.Dogs and rats are good in their place,Birds-nest soups may a banquet grace,Chop-sticks, too, will do very well,If you play the regular Chinese swell ;But oh! give meA cup of their tea,Odorous, black, and strong!Ching Ling is coming across this spring,But a chest… … CHING LING. Now, boys, remember how much dependsOn being polite to our Chinese friends. Spaniard. Languidly, dreamily, float to my ear,Strains from a distant guitar; Soon in the moonlighted darkness appear-Blended the near and the far— Dusky-robed figures of marvelous grace,Weaving the forms of the…
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