Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 642
irst sawnothing Except a bird, a sky-blue bird,That sat upon a tree. But the second time, she saw Beside the well a lady small.All clothed in green and white, who gave her a fairy blessing, telling her that sheshould Have the will and power to please,And should be loved alway. The brownies, too,… … where peaceful waters glide. Then, at dew-fall, her grandmother sent her milk the mother-ewe ; And when she came to the lonesome glen,She kept beside the burn,And neither plucked the strawberry-flower. . Nor broke the lady-fern. And while she milked the mother-ewe.Within this lonesome glen,She…
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