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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 40

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he legend that floated to meFrom a little old town at the edge of the sea;With it a handful of fragrant grassAnd the empty frame of a looking-glass.596 DAME QUIGLEY S GLASS. Massive and stern, hard-featured and brown,Dame Quigley dwelt in the old shore town.Her back was broad, and her will was… … Dame Quigley sat in her own south door As the long procession wound up from the shore. About her the fragrant, blossoming grass, At her feet an ancient looking-glass, She sat in the sun to watch them pass. 598 DAME QUIGLEY S GLASS. And she mocked them bitterly, crying: Come seeYourselves as ye look…

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