Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 37
nd lo, upon the hill-top, a mighty mistress gay, Her satin petticoat was grand, her feathers fine were they !Her buckles and her ribbons they flouted foot and head,So, oer the hill-top, after her, away we all sped! Oh, mistress, mighty mistress, what brings you oer the lea? But she tossed her head… … nd then, with pipe and singing, with laugh and whistle shrill,The maddest music there was made a-dashing down the hill!Until upon the green ways, nigh to Durley Fair,We smiled at one another—and wondered we were there! Now, why go we a-faring about the green ways here ? For such a blithesome…
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