Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 104
happier than the little Christmas tree. But next week, stripped of all its gifts and cast into the yard,It murmured with a little sigh : Now, surely this is hard!To give delight for but that night, And then to be forgot,Would seem to be for any treeA most unhappy lot! But Ned and Ted and little… … 92 THAT LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREE. [Dec A plank their ship, a sheet their sail, the happy tree their mast,These bold explorers northward turned, and sailedaway so fastThat soon oer unknown lands there waved M The banner of the free.The staff that proudly bore itWas the little Christmas tree. __^jSS£*
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