She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas. - Mary Mapes Dodge
I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.
- Mary Mapes Dodge
But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead. - Mary Mapes Dodge
But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.
But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away. - Mary Mapes Dodge
But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.
Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago. - Mary Mapes Dodge
Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.
[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge. - Mary Mapes Dodge
[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.
Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way. - Mary Mapes Dodge
Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way.
[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country. - Mary Mapes Dodge
[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.
What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. - Mary Mapes Dodge
What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.
Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious… - Mary Mapes Dodge
Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious…
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