Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 391
et you drest;You re Holidays —put on your best,Gay frocks and gayer hosen !Make haste, for I ve a thousand things and more to see to here,Besides just choosing Holidays to clutter up the year! Away they flew with hop and skip,Those Holidays ecstatic;And Time, with chuckle and with groan,Had… … Old I imc s a tender-hearted rogue.Why, why ! what s this ? he sputtered.Alas ! she wept, and to her eyesHer little apron fluttered.Alas ! —and once again her grief gushed like a waterspout —Youve chosen all the Holidays, .she sobbed, and left us out! Oho! laughed Time. And what of that? It never…
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