Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 439
the west;The yellow chicks drowsily peep ;The mother bird gathers her young in the nest,And everything gently is lulling torest;(And a little maid fast asleep)! IN VACATION. BY MYRA BRADVVELL HELMER(AGE II). I M tired of the world and its plea-^ssures, And gold coming in by the mea-sures. Give me… … Not the city church, whereoft they dress to showoff in the aisle.Let me be awakened by the crowing of the cockInstead of the tones of amuch-used silver clock;Let me hear the little calvesand the little lambs sayBaa!For this will do me muchmore good than a tripto Panama.Oh, take the hothouse…
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