Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 38
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… … DT why the Piper piped a tune so keenly strange and sweet,And why the Farmer whistled so joyous through his wheat,And what the magic meaning of the lovely lassies song,And why the queer man should leap so merrily along, [And of that mighty mistress, who was so wondrous fine,—With buckles peering…
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