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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 520

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HE was going to carrysuccor to somewounded knight,perchance,Or to keep a fairy ren-dezvous and joina fairy dance.She was beautiful Rowena,Lost and lovely Proserpina,St. Elizabeth, or noble Jeanne of France forget exactlywhich, butone you musthavechancedto meet),Or the Lily Maidof Astolat, orEnid,… … She was rich and she was famous, she was beautiful and good;She was crowned with all the glories of aperfect womanhood;And the future shone before her / Like a misty bright / f Jj^fe- aurora, Or the dazzle of thesunlight in thewood.

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