Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 836
n ! .Of the birds and the flowers hardly one can be found,Though the little brown sparrows stay all the year round. I wish I could tell you where all the birds go ; But I am a little girl—I cannot know! O Autumn! why banish such bright things as they?Pray turn the world gently! dont scare them… … Of one thing we may be certain,—that He whoturns the world upon its axis so as to cause thechanges of the seasons, meant us to receive somenew happiness from every one of them. He hathmade everything beautiful in its time, and if we werebut as grateful as He is good, how would the seasons,one and…
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