Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 254
re. None stop to see the beauty hidden In your shining flower.Yon re but a weed, yet, in your heart. You know your strength and power.You stand alone, ask help of none; Yet all the summer long,You re ready with your happy smile, Your little sunny song.And when the silvery signs of age Turn your… … •PRIM LITTLli MAIDENS THEY SEEM TO ME 725 I LOVE and admire thespicy clove-pinksThat border my old-fashioned gardenswalks,— The brave Johnny-jump-ups I treatwith respect,—But I take off my hatto my hollyhocks. Stately and tall, likemaids of old days.They stand by thewall, but I m hop-ing yet Some…
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