Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 241
urmurously,Waking music in the tree; Toying with the dewy blooms Where the brown bee drones and booms, Stealing odors from the red Roses in the garden bed; Rifling purple flower-bells,Loitering in rosy shells, Kissing into pearls the seaNeath the white moon, daintily; Bearing oer the ripples… … AN OPEN SECRET. By Anna M. Pratt. Rose, I will guess your secret — Your blushes shall speak —Did you leave some velvety petals On a wee, warm cheek ? Did you float on a morning zephyr,Blowing soft from the south, To breathe your balmy fragranceOn a dewy sweet mouth ? Does the dent of a tiny dimple…
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