Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 582
lance is made of an icicle bright, His arrows are the hail. And now and again he encounters a knight In Lincoln green arrayed;His crest is a spray of hawthorn white, A sunbeam is his blade. They fight from dawn till set of sun,Till the leaves come out on the trees, And all the rivers begin to… … The sound of the wind, and of falling rainBeating against the window-pane,A clean-swept hearth and the fires glow,The sound of the tea-kettle humming low,The cat asleep in the rocking-chair,Warmth and comfort everywhere,And a neighbor in for a dish of tea—Ah, that s the kind of a day for me!
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