Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 689
r tears : such fears My jesting words impart. Do you love me ? he says. His soft blue eyes to mine.Love me ! he says—sweet ways. Pure eves ! too soft to shine. I soothe the foolish childWith tender, loving words. The foolish child !—he smiledAnd fled to chase the birds. 656 SONG OF THE TURTLE AND… … THE LOVERS. And one summer day, as he went out to play,Fell in love with a charming flamingo—An enormously genteel flamingo!An expansively crimson flamingo !A beautiful, bouncing flamingo ! Spake the turtle in tones like a delicate wheeze:To the water Ive oft seen you in go,And your form has…
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