twas boyish fancy — for the reader Was youngest of them all — But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall ; The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While the whole camp with "Nell" on English... Library Association Record - Page 64by Library Association - 1906Full view - About this book
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