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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 204

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ntive melody. So pleased was thegod with the sweet music, that he vowed todedicate it to the vanished nymph. So, break-ing the reeds into uneven lengths, he madewith them an instrument, and called it a syrinxin memory of his love. It is said that thosewho have ears may hear Pan, even to this… … TIIK STR()N(;-MAN TEUOH.S—Tl 1B OAKS y\pollo, as yovt must know, was the sun-god,and Daphne was a water-nymph, who dweltwith her sisters in the streams and along thebosky river banks. But she loved to roamafield in search of flowers, when the dew wasupon the meadows. One day, while Daphnewas thus…

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