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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 195

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tes : — Ah! Fare thee well, sweet Beauty, Thou dear delight of unforgotten days. And get thee hence, thou Duty, Who wouldst to household use devote my lays ! I II none of either; here, great Jove, defend me! These damsels both in thy name I 11 defy. And thine own sky-bolts, gracious father, lend… … A HOT DAY. BY MIRIAM H. TANBERG, AGE 10. (HONOR And lulled me with her dizzy melodies.Then ere I could the slumbrous bonds dissever,With poised flight she fled my grasp forever.By sterner witchcraft cold-eyed Duty led me;She yoked me as a plowmate to dull Care,The bitter bread of lost Ambition fed…

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