Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 605
o-day—A boxful of beautiful silks, bright and gay,With some lovely gold bobbins on which you can wind.Very smoothly, each color, each shade, of each kind. With the greatest of neatness this work must be done.And ift is not completed by set of the sun.Without any supper just hasten to bed.And finish… … TILL AT LAST, IN DESPAIR. SHE GAVE UPAND CRIEDl She looked in the box, and t was perfectlytrue That the colors were lovely,—pink, yellow,and blue, With green, and vermilion, and lilac, andwhite,— But oh, what a tangle! the snarl was a sight!The loveliest silks, but of no earthly useUntil somebodys…
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