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
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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