Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 132
Noon on the gardens fair and stately, Close-clipped hedges and arbors rare;Noon in the palace hushd sedately— King asleep in his cushioned chair.Pages nodding and lords bent over;— Breaking the silence, far and sweet,Tweet-tweet-tweet! sang a bird in the clover Warm winds blew it across the wheat! … Princess Marjoline, fair and rosy,—Sun a-fleck on her golden head,—Scowld at her lessons dull and prosy; That bird s happy! she softly said.Nodded the grim duenna, sleeping; Eyes that saw not, nor ears that heard;Swiftly the little princess, creeping,Fled, at the call of a vagrant bird!675 676 A…
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