Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 311
saw above her headA deep cut window in the wall, its bars with rust grown red,Grasping at these, two childrens hands. Two pairs of merry eyesLooked down from neath the flaxen locks, and laughed at her surprise. Who are you, maid ? a quick voice cried, imperious and gay. Bess Brackenbury, please,… … Then quoth the blue-eyed boy, still bentabove the rusty sill, I would the Lord Lieutenant had othersat his will! Stay,child; that daisy pluck for me — a grass-blade — anything! Within these walls no token comes of winteror of spring. Some day I 11 sure requiteyou — I am a royalking! Now English…
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