Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 645
ade, go forth, Gods blessing breathed upr-n the fainting earth ! Go, rock the little wood-bird in his nest! The poetry of rain in summer every child musthave felt. There are summer rain songs that dropdown into tired and suffocated lives as the showersglide to the roots of the grass in time of… … THERE COME THE LITTLE GENTLE BIRDS. And there is an exquisite little poem by Aldrich,called Before the Rain : We knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender ropes of mistWas lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethystOf marshes and swamps and dismal fens,— Scooping the…
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