Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 43
ll, my dear,Until, when every Prince is tried,The best shall win a peerless bride! Full of devotion to the brim.What parlous feat would one not dare,To win a Princess sweet and fairWho brought as portion with her handThe throne of such a thriving land ? Among them was a Prince whose nameAs yet was… … quite right, he said, my darling child. From far and near the Princes comeWith sound of trumpet and of drum;On foot, in litters, and by sea —But all of royal pedigree,All young, all gallant, all in trim, And eagerly the warriors met.With lance in rest and vizor down,All rode to win the floral…
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