Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 599
One moonlight night in balmy June, The animals, forsakingTheir various haunts in wood and field, Met for a merry-making. The frogs, with trombones and bassoons,Came trooping from the sedges ; The lizard peeped from out his denTo see what was the matter. The band struck up a lively tune,The dancers… … The whip-poor-will and nightingaleBrought cornets from the hedges. The night-hawks came with fifes and drumsAnd swelled the cheerful clatter: The simpering squirrel swung the toad, And looked so very winning;The coon and woodchuck joined their paws, And in a waltz went spinning. I879-J THE SYLVAN…
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