Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 463
atin veins of thevery rose-leaves of a bud just open-ing. It blossomed and bloomed,and was very, very happy inits soft pink resting-place, for aday. Then what became of it ? Ah! But it would make avery long story, indeed, if I wereto try to tell every experience ofeven one little snowflake or drop… … It.-rrJ.ilflt^ T was Midsummers Day,that delightful point toward% which the whole year climbs and~< from which it slips off like an ebbingwave in the direction of the distant winter. Nowonder that superstitious people in old timesgave this day to the fairies, for it is the mostbeautiful day of…
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