Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 344
hless, they stood That hid the laughter that lurked in her without eyes. In an anteroom neat as a pin, Nay, now, she cried, what a heart of While the messenger boys in an orderly stone corps This ruler of eight years old must own ! Went in with their gifts at the nursery Yet, hark you, sirs, you… … A tempest of weeping and shriek uponshriek From within. And out at the door came the unlucky toys In a shower that darkened the air;And out from the palace in dire dismayThe wise men fled by the shortest way,Nor paused until they had reached the shore,Where, all in a heap on the sandy floor,The…
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