Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 235
n. Being torn from this congenial labor,he was carried off shining with oil and roaringlustily. But Jill did not mind her loneliness now, and ■14 THE THREE COPECKS. [January, sang like a happy canary while she threaded hersparkling beads, or hung the gay horns to dry.readv for their cargoes of… … CROUCHED low in a sordid chamber,With a cupboard of empty shelves,— Half starved, and, alas ! unableTo comfort or help themselves,— Two children were left forsaken,All orphaned of mortal care; But with spirits too close to HeavenTo be tainted by Earths despair,— Alone in that crowded city, Which…
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