Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 421
ooping sedges; The nuts drop softly from their burrs;No bird-song the dim silence stirs,—A blight is on the hedges. But filled with fair content is she,As if no frost could ever be, To dim her brown eyes luster;And much she knows of fairy folkThat dance beneath the spreading oak With tinkling mirth… … SOME CURIOUS MARINERS. 89I SOME CURIOUS MARINERS.By C. F. Holder. One bright spring morning, two boys werewalking out into the open country, near the littlevillage of Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. Each ladcarried under his arm a miniature cutter. It wasthe day of the great race between the Sea…
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