Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 642
her tongues the youth could speak.He could not scorn the Scholars storeOf wisdom gleaned from ancient lore, .Nor mock the ardent love of truthThat lit the lean face of the youthThe while he uttered discourse sageBefitting graybeards thrice his age. The Travelers thought that he might spurn. In… … Once upon a time a king, who was younger thanhe was wise, was walking along a road in hiskingdom, when all of a sudden he heard some onelaughing and laughing so loud and so long that abody listening might have thought the wholeworld was merry as a wedding-bell. And the kinglooked about to see who…
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