Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 345
birds and bees,The flowers and trees Are all alive with joy. Your heart attuneTo cheery June, And pipe a merry lay.The fields are fair,Their gladness share — Come, pipe your gloom away. The music of the song was so full of gladnessthat Arco turned a scowling face toward thesinger, and grumblingly… … The song ceased, and a voice that came fromthe bird replied, Only a bird, did you say ?Presto ! Change ! and in a twinkling thebird was gone, and in its place Arco beheldanother boy, the very image of himself, leaningagainst the oak and smiling at him. Who are you ? cried the startled shepherd. I…
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