Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 105
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£* … What afterward befell it would take me long to tell:It once became a fairy wood, where elves and dryads dwell;And once a prancing, coal-black steed, With a noble knight astride;And once a dark and gloomy caveWhere bears and lions hide. But when, one day, there wandered by a ragged, shivring boy,He…
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