Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 265
,All whisper softly : Hark ! It is the matchless nightingaleSweet-singing in the dark. VI. He has no pride of feathers fine; Unconscious, too, is he.That welcomed as a thing divine Is his clear minstrelsy. VII. But from the fullness of his heart His happy carol pours :Beyond all praise, above all… … A lady who lived by the shore,In time grew so used to its roar,That she never could sleepUnless some one would keepA-pounding away at the door. MRS. PETERKIN IN EGYPT. By Lucketja P. Hale. The family had taken passage in the new linefor Bordeaux. They supposed they had ; but wouldthey ever reach…
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