Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 265
smiling sweetly as they couldOn Amnes, who before them stoodAngelically mild and good, With pussy purring near him. What! Nepthah cried. My dear, t isUs!(For even princes stumble thus.) The likenesses are marvelous !And see, his brush is in his hand!I quake — I fear to understand!My noble boy, you… … HAD GARLANDS FOR HIS GIFTED BROW. A lotus-flower to smell, I trow,—And home was borne in happy state,Where, with the rest, his dinner, late,But sumptuous to the end, he ateWith appetite surprising. My story s told. But let me sayThat never from that fateful day —So much experience doth avail—Did…
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