Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 268
mersault ! Though he is volatile and fast, His feet are slim as pegs.How can his reckless motions last Upon such slender legs?Below him lazy beetles creep ; He gyrates round and round,—One moment vaulting in a leap, The next upon the ground ! He hops amid the fallen twigs So agile in his glee,I m… … He philosophers CscAPef ?i By Eva Lovett Carson. Once there lived a wise philosopher (so runs an ancient rhyme),Who was prisoned in a dungeon, although guilty of no crime;And he bore it with a patience that might well be called sublime. For the cruel king who put him there had made a stern decree :…
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