Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 61
denAre bending limp and low.The cornstalks, brown and withered,Stand rustling in a row.We were so fine, they murmur,: A little while ago ! The sky is gray and gloomyWithout the sunshines glow.There is no smiling anywhereUnless — Oh, gladsome show !Twelve plump and golden pumpkinsAll beaming in a… … F the kitchen-door standopen — and the door ofan Arkansas kitchen islikely to stand open on alate February day — youcan look from the kettlesof the big stove to thebend of the Black River,to the steep bank wherered willow twigs top thevelvet down which willbe grass, and across thegray waters to…
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