St. Nicholas: Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys, Volume 18, Part 2Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1891 |
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Page 567 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
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Page 562 - Merry, rollicking, frolicking May Into the woods came skipping one day; She teased the brook till he laughed outright, And gurgled and scolded with all his might ; She chirped to the birds and bade them sing A chorus of welcome to Lady Spring; And the bees and butterflies she set To waking the flowers that were sleeping yet. She shook the trees till the buds looked out To see what the trouble was all about, And nothing in Nature escaped that day The touch of the life-giving bright young May. —...
Page 491 - Will there really be a morning? Is there such a thing as day? Could I see it from the mountains If I were as tall as they? Has it feet like water lilies?
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Page 647 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ?. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough Winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
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