Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 374
Time, great worker of all change,At last my rescue might arrange. From cobwebbed nook, from dusty wall, Came, at the relic-hunters call, A rusty train of antique wares ; And marshaled forth, we went downstairs. Such din, I ween, was never heard :The spinning-wheel to spinning stirred;The bellows… … ~~~=^^=3> If now a lesson you would learn,It is — of patience for your turn ;For good and ill must both have roomWithin the web of Lifes great loom.
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