Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 461
. Breeze,Listen to his whistling up there in the trees.Some have gone in swimming down in yonder nook,See that host of bathers diving in the brook.There a crowd has gathered in an eager talk,Now they re widely scattered all along the walk.So they gayly frolic through the sunny hours,Careless of the… … A QUIET and usually timid Dugong Burst suddenly forth into amorous song, And, sitting upright on the tip of his tail, Extolled the great charms of the royal Sperm Whale. An envious Shark, who was passing that way,And observed that the Dugong seemed blithesome and gay,Instead of, as usual, timid and…
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