Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 259
had encouragement enough to leave the labora-tory, and devote himself to the quill. But heremembered, no doubt, what a wise man oncesaid about literature as a profession : it is a verygreat staff, but a very sorry crutch. He continuedto be a physician, and rose to eminence as a profes-sor in the… … AUGUST. By Frank Dempster Sherman. AUGUST, month when Summer liesSleeping under sapphire skies :Open all the windows wide,Drink the orchards fragrant tide,—Breath of grass at morning mownThrough the leafy vistas blown,—Hear the clinking of the scytheSound mellifluent and blithe.August, month when…
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