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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 211

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ushes, The metal box behind, where he,The painter, keeps his brushes. The little pair of mortals here,For Tuscan landscape fitting— These are his models, not, I fear,Of patience while they re sitting. 712 THE LITTLE MODELS. [July, They ve sat for hours—three weary whiles- With limbs for frolic… … What s Art to them? whats een its name To Tina, here, and Beppo ?Though here s the Atlantic in a frame, A desert from Aleppo ; The painter does his utmost partTo reach to glorys stature: These sit, mid all the strain of Art,Two little scraps of Nature: TOM S ANTI-FIRE-CRACKER LEAGUE. 713 And never…

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