Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 241
ly affect this lofty citadel.Down in the valley at its feet—as belowMontezumas Well and the hundreds of otherprehistoric dwellings in the canon of Beaver — are still traces of the little fields and of theacequias * that watered them. Even in thosefar days the Pueblos were patient,… … If in the Flowery Kingdom you had happened to be born,Enough of flowers you might have—and every flower a thorn ; You would not, light as thistle-down, thisFourth of Julymorn, Dance round withyour torpedoesand your mel-low mimic horn: For you would be,poor little maid,unused to goalone,— A prisoner…
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