Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 150
orrison ! After half a centurys lapse,We are wiser now, perhaps,But we miss our streets-amidSomething which the past has hid,Lost with Abram Morrison. When, on calm and fair First Days,Rattled down our one-horse chaiseThrough the blossomed apple-boughsTo the Quaker meeting-house, There was Abram… … Kate was eleven ;Johnny was six ; Dorawas going on five.It was nearly Christ-mas, and Kate had hermind set upon mak-ing Johnny a present.What should it be?Not slippers, for AuntMary had sent him apretty pairon his birth-day, blue with a knotof pansies. Neithercould the present bemittens, lest…
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