Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 487
The flowers give a show. They gave me a front seat,The very nicest there— A bank of violets sweetAnd moss and maiden-hair. T was going to be a treat —I felt it in the air. As martial music crashed From a trained trumpet-vine,Into the ring there dashed A beauteous columbine!With airy grace she… … 1002 THE FLOWER CIRCUS. I cried, Brava! Encore ! Until she d jumped through nineEach higher than before. (I tell you, it was fine ! A Spider, in mid-air (Engaged at great expense),On tight-thread gossamer Danced with a skill immense
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