Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 198
ys are now numbered, this century clear, So good-by to the spring, and good-by to the year. While Emily Seymour Peck makes the old centuryrather sad: Well, well, said he, I ve had my turn;The younger C. is stirring about.Lifes candles all must slowly burnUnto the end, and then go out. Arthur Edward… … BY MARGUERITE WELLS, AGE 12. The telephone, the telegraph, and the pen of steel,The sulphur match, St. Nicholas, and rubber-tiredwheel. And George Elliston, who is seventeen, closes thismonths gems with these graceful and poetic stanzas: The silent years, with ceaseless, noiseless tread,On toward…
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