Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 291
and dales the wind blows chill And whistles round at night.The trees have lost their gorgeous gowns Of red and brown and gold.They re standing there without a sound, All barren, bleak and cold.The birds have all gone far away To balmy southern lands,The giant windmill, night and day, A lonely… … starlight. The air was chill, and the shepherds wereglad to huddle about their crackling fire to get whatwarmth it afiforded. Surrounded by all-enveloping still-ness, the three men gradually ceased talking and satsilently watching the flames. It was Abel, the young-est, a lad of seventeen years,…
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