Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 461
seph clasped in her arms, while inher heart sweet Peace sat, crowned withsmiles. Put thy head down, so, said her father.What was I saying? Oh, ay. We heardher blow at half-past three in the morning,—afine spermaceti t was,—and we hove out ourboats, it being still dark. Just before sunris-ing we… … My grandpa sits in his easy-chair, And the hot dust swirls through the sultry air;And he says, as he looks at the wilting things:It is going to rain when the rain-crow sings. But the rain-crow sings from the rockingtree, And never a cloud in the sky we see ;And our longing eyes are turned in vainTo…
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