Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 125
By the road grew wild red roses; there the daisies, gold and white,Waved their silvry-shining petals from the morning to the night. And the iris and the roses, and the silver daisies, too,Made the colors of our country, for t was red andwhite and blue. Now these flowers were not unnoticed, for a… … IN UNIFORM. BY ELEANORE L. ROBERTS, AGE 14.(GOLD BADGE. SILVER BADGE WON FEB., 1917.) So he made the wreath he thought of, with the red and white and blue ;All the people flocked to see it—they had seen the flowers, too. So the iris, called the blue flag, growing in the deepmoss-hag, With red roses…
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