Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 444
Beneath their touch the flowers grew bright:And the streamlet sparkled with their light.And the birds poured forth their chorus gay,To heighten the charm of the summer day. And the children played there in careless glee ; And laughed aloud in their joy to see The fleecy lambs go scampering by To… … WILD SWANS. BY FLOYD CLARKSON, AGE 12. (SECONDPRIZE, WILD CREATURE PHOTOGRAPHY.) The lambs scampered down as the light grew pale,And the children sought their homes in the vale,And the bright flowers shut their eyes of gold,And hushed was the tale the song birds told. The sunbeams went back to…
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