Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 301
of burden ; nor doesit, like the ostrich or the elephant, provide eitherfeather or ivory for commerce. In fact, this curiousanimal is of no practical use to man, and should beleft free to roam the plains and forests of its Africanhome, unmolested and unharmed, save for the oc-casional capture of… … A sunflower tall, by the garden wall,Scornfully nodded his headTo a brilliant poppy, whose cheeks belcwWere all aflame with a crimson glow. I am the child of the sun, he smiled ; His color is mine, you see,While you are drinking his warm rays in,You never once try his tints to win. But the poppy…
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