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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

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

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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. … it matter if the sunwere hid beneath acloudlet curled?If the leafy paths were dripping andthe branches rain-impearled ?•She was walking in a splendorThat no later suns can render —In the magic light that glorifies the world. But—how blind we grown-uppeople are! how stupidlycontent!It was just a…

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