Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 376
ELFORD EDDY. {Silver Badge.) Near the shore of the Potomac River, at a spot be-tween Bridges Creek and Popes Creek, there lies astone slab, crumbled and overgrown with vines, whichbears this inscription: HERE, on the iith February, 1732, George Washington was BORN. There is not a sign of the house… … What seek ye, far from faeryland ?For fast and fast ye fare. I come to seek my valentine—A ladye fine, a true love mine —A sweet maid for a valentine, With sunlit eyes and hair. Oh, I have seen your sweet ladye In wandrings wide and far.But she is held in weary thrall — IN WINTER-TIME. BV MARJORIE…
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