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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 42

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ky and wave-green grass Are all that will show in the looking-glass! Burners of women, behold and see! Ye are naught, ye are naught to the Lord and me! Squire and parson, clerk and judge,Dame of degree and household drudge,They who prated of doing the Lords good will,And yet could be cruel and… … Then the voice of the dame rose shrill and highAs the long procession wound slowly by: Ye who perverted my merciful word Have cast yourselves out of my world, saith the Lord. That very night, as the sun went down,She shook from her feet the dust of the town;The judge in his gateway watched her…

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