Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 730
flown?Then the first star whispers, Yes, Lady, gone! Then the moons pale finger beckons and gleamsHeavy with jeweled rings of dreams;And her skirts trail over the woods and streams.And wherever they trail, on branch or stem,Stir wonderful dreams at the touch of them—In boughs all bare but… … The violets under the boughs make room.And because the heron is on the wing,The earth blooms into the waking spring ! And the heron ? They say he seeks some tree, The tallest northmost pine maybe, Beyond the great blue Northern lakes, And here it is his rest he takes, Away from human sound and…
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