Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 620
e heard far away in the woods. But aboveall, there comes to me a vision of moonlight in far-away Tahiti, that rare and beautiful island of the SouthSeas. Come, let me show it to you :— Native voices, singing wild, quaint songs, die awayin the distance, coming out of nowhere, returning tothat… … PLEASANT Wr OLLY SAWYER, AGE 9. silvery rays. Crouching forms wait to spring out fromamong the black shadows along the ^roadside, or stirstealthily amid, the depths of the giant ferns A sisterisland, once so distant, now made so near by the pres-ence of night, is slumbering, black in a silver…
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