Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 328
; Death closed her mild blue eyes,Under that tower she lies ;Neer shall the sun ariseOn such another ! Still grew my bosom then,Still as a stagnant fen !Hateful to me were men. The sunlight hateful !In the vast forest here,Clad in my warlike gear,Fell I upon my spear, O, death was grateful ! Thus,… … THE OLD TOWER AT NEWPORT. In Scandinavia, Skoal is the customary salutation when drinking a health. 3o8 THE ST. NICHOLAS TREASURE-BOX, [February, A LITTLE more than twenty years before our Americanpoet thus put life into the old ruin at Newport, our firstgreat American prose-writer went over the…
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