Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 313
ed the legalprofession, for he had no ability in that direction.As a farmer or a mechanic he might have lived along, useful, and successful life. No boy, of course, should enter a trade unless hefeels himself fitted for it; but, on the other hand,he should not, it seems to me, let the false… … The Great Blue Heron stood all alone By the edge of the solemn sea,On a broken bowlder of gray trap-stone He was lost in a reverie. And when I climbed over the low rough wallAt the top of the sloping beach, To gather the drift-wood great and smallLeft scattered to dry and to bleach, I saw, as if…
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