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When life is young

a collection of verse for boys and girls
Dodge, Mary Mapes (1830-1905)

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A DEAR LITTLE GOOSE
 
THE BEE-CHARMER
 
THE CALL OF THE SEA
 
A PLUMP LITTLE GIRL AND A THIN LITTLE BIRD
 
THE POET WHO COULD N'T WRITE POETRY
 
THE WELL-READ HUNTER
 
POOR MARIONETTE
 
CONSIDER, NOW, A PAINTER-MAN
 
A BALL 'S A BALL
 
THE NAUGHTY LITTLE EGYPTIAN
 
SEEING IS BELIEVING
 
TELL ME, DAISY
 
ARAMANTHA MEHITABEL BROWN
 
COMING HOME
 
SCHOOL-BOY TROUBLES
 
FANS
 
A NEW YEAR
 
DANCING
 
A DEAR LITTLE SCHEMER
 
THE ROAD TO LEARNING
 
THE FANCY-DRESS BALL
 
THE LITTLE GIRL WHO TRIED TO MIND
 
THE FAIR-MINDED MEN WHO WALKED TO DONAHAN
 
A BROWN STUDY
 
“A MISS IS AS GOOD AS A MILE”
 
OUT OF THE SKY
 
I KNOW A LITTLE MAIDEN
 
A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE
 
IN A BREEZE
 
INTERNATIONAL
 
SURPRISE
 
MOTHER
 
“PHILOPENA!”
 
PUZZLED FAIRY-FOLK
 
MILD FARMER JONES AND THE NAUGHTY BOY
 
ALARMED
 
WHAT HAPPENED TO NELLY
 
THE SECRET
 
THISTLES!
 
JEANNETTE AND JO
 
DOWN BY THE SEA
 
THE TALE OF A TUB
 
MOTHER'S ARM
 
UNSETTLED
 
INFORMED
 
THE LETTERS AT SCHOOL
 
DRESSING MARY ANN
 
NEW-YEAR'S DAY
 
CAT'S-CRADLE
 
SIGNS OF MAY
 
JOHNNY AND MEG
 
ON THE LAGOON
 
WHY
 
SUNNY DAYS
 
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
 
TO W. F. C.
 
THE LITTLE BIG WOMAN AND THE BIG LITTLE GIRL
 
NANNY ANN
 
THE FOUR LITTLE IMPS
 
THE SMILING DOLLY
 
HOW DO BIRDS FIRST LEARN TO SING?
 
CHRISTMAS EVE
 
THE CIRCUS CLOWN'S DREAM
 
AN APPEAL
 
ROBBY'S SPAN
 
HIS REPORT
 
EIGHT-DAY CLOCKS
 
TINSEL WITHOUT, BUT METAL WITHIN
 
BERRY-TIME
 
THE THREE TIGERS
 
A TERRIBLE TIGER
 
FAR AWAY
 
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
 
THE FARMER WHO BECAME DRUM-MAJOR
 
COURTESY
 
MAY BLOSSOMS
 
EIGHT GOOD THINGS ABOUT DOBBIN
 
A SMART BOY
 
SEVEN LITTLE PUSSY-CATS
 
ELEVEN LITTLE PUSSY-CATS
 
JACK AND JILL
 
IN HASTE
 
SOAP-BUBBLES
 
MASTER THEODORE
 
FORBIDDEN
 
TEN LITTLE DOLLS
 
JACK'S WISH
 
A DUTCH FAMILY
 
LITTLE MISS KITTY
 
“THE WORTHY POOR”
 
THE SPRINT RUNNER
 
FUN AT GRANDMAMA'S
 
THE KNOWING LITTLE FISH
 
THE WINDMILL
 
HAPPY JOHNNY; OR, TAKING LIFE CHEERFULLY
 
A SANTA CLAUS MESSENGER-BOY
 
SNOWFLAKES
 
PHILOPENA
 
THE MAN WHO DID N'T KNOW WHEN TO STOP
 
THE OREGON EXPRESS
 
HOW WILLY'S SHIP CAME BACK
 
A STIR AMONG THE DAISIES
 
THE LITTLE KINDERGARTEN GIRL
 
HOW SHOCKING!
 
THE BICYCLE BOYS
 
LITTLE ROSY RED-CHEEK

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106

THE SECRET

I watched a butterfly on the wing;
I saw him alight on a sunny spray.
His pinions quivered;
The blossoms shivered;
I know he whispered some startling thing.
But why so bold,
Or what he told,
While poising there on the sunny spray,
I 've never learned to this blessed day.
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