Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 218
sickly flames across the billowMay shine afar and reach some seamans sight, Perhaps my beacon light may shine and save meOr save some drowning sailor in the night. I fix my gaze upon the ruddy embersAnd hope that in the firelight I may see Those fair, enchanting, fleeting firelight picturesThat by… … THE STREET I LIVE ON. BY MAKJORIE MOORE SAMMIS, AGE II. (GOLD BADGE.) I see her deck that deeper sinks and deeperAnd now the burning masts alone are there, The picture of my own lost, lovely vesselThat but this morning rode the billows fair. Oh, lonely fire, I cannot brook thy picturesOf that lost…
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