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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 93

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, and the present word isa modernized form of the older name. A jour-ney means properly a days travel, andcomes, of course, from the French journee.The Italians have the word giornata, mean-ing a days work. Perhaps the strangestcorruption in English is that which gives thename Jerusalem artichoke… … SONG ON MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning-star, days harbinger, Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Comes dancing from the East, and leads with Mirth, and youth, and warm desire; her Woods and groves are of thy dressing, The flowery May, who from her green lap Hill and dale doth boast thy…

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