Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 86
yStraight on the dusty road, that layParched as the noon of an August day;The fields and the fences all grew gray;I saw the shrubbery swim and sway,But each throb in my muscle seemed to say,This is the crisis, your strength must stay. Could he keep the pace ? Was he falling back ?The world before… … I had him ! I had him ! and yet againHe stiffened himself, and I felt him strainTo throw me off. I could hold him ! No,Slowly I weakened and let him go.
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