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Told in the twilight (1880)

Weatherly, F. E. (Frederic Edward), 1848-1929, Edwards, Mary Ellen, 1839-ca. 1910. ill, Staples, John C. ill · New York : E.P. Dutton & Co. · leaf 51

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47 THE OLD PICTURE-BOOK. It was an old old picture-book, Full of the merriest talesOf mermaids fair with golden hair, And ships with silver sails \Of fairies light who danced at night,Of goblins on the stair,\.~-j And many a knight in armour brightY\ ho fought for ladies fair. It was only a… … It is an old old picture-book, Battered, and torn, and brown;But why does the mother sit and sigh? Why do her tears run down?She listens through the long long evesj She waits for the opening door,But the little hands that turned the leavWill turn them again no more.It is only a battered…

Children's poetry, American

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