Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 87
eshness of childhood. Longfellow. I:i\H But our young folks have an added interestin Indian summer. They not only enjoy allits beauties, but regard it as a prophecy of the winter sports. It means to them that winter is coming—winter, with all its keen and zestfulenjoyments. Another poet of New… … „**-« THE MOONLIGHT IN INDIAN SUMMER IS PECULIARLY SILVERY. THIS IS ESPECIALLY APPARENTWHEN VIEWED ACROSS A SMALL LAKE OR POND. And all around me every bush and treeSays autumn s here, and winter soon will be,Who snows his soft, white sleep and silence overall. . . . While firmer ice the eager boy…
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