Poems and verses by Mary Mapes Dodge | ||
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WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS.
Two little sorrel blossoms, pale and slender,Lean to each other in the cool, tall grass;
The crowding spears with gallant air and tender,
Shield them completely from the sun's fierce splendor,
Till harmlessly an angry wind might pass.
And I stand smiling with a sudden whim:
“The little innocents! Now am I sure
They think them in a forest grand and dim,
The mighty grass coeval with their birth,—
Shut from the world, from every ill secure,
And where their thicket ends, there ends the earth!”
Poems and verses by Mary Mapes Dodge | ||