Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 489
give a social tea beneath the hollyhock.A robin read the message from a slender pine-tree steeple— A note that begged them sweetly to be there by six oclock.They came a-wing, they came a-foot, they came from flower and thicket: Miss Humming-Bird was present in a coat and bonnet gay,And portly Mr.… … ^» The table was a toadstool with a spider-woven cover; The fare was served in rose-leaf plates and bluebell cups a-ring—Sweet honey from the latest bloom, and last nights dew left over, And a crumb of mortal cake for which an ant went pilfering.A mocking-bird within the hedge sang loudly for their…
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