Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 348
they have been dead. No, dear, we never met! But, Thea, you re so old, she said, You know you might forget! / m only six, I m very new, I cant remember much.She clasped me, as she nearer drew,With light and gentle touch. Tell me, where are they now ? asked she. Oh, question ages old! That,… … WITH SERIOUS EVES SHE GAZED AT ME. With serious eyes she gazed at me,And for a moments space A shadow of perplexityFlitted across her face. Then, dancing down the sunlit way,She gathered bud and bell, And mid its ferns forgotten laySir William Pepperrells well.
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