Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 51
LOO-LEE LOO. Each day she came and satOn her queer little bamboo mat.(And I hope she carried a doll or two, but Icant be sure of that!)She watched the fountain toss,And she gazed the bridge across,And she worked a bit of embroidery finewith a thread of silken floss. THE LITTLE BROTHER OF LOO-LEE… … For terribly lonely and dull sometimes waspoor little Loo-lee Loo. Her father had kites to flyFar up in the free blue sky(For a Chinaman loves with this elegantsport his leisure to occupy);And what with his drums and gongs,And his numerous loud ding-dongs,He could have any day, in a princely way,a…
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