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My Mother's Diamonds: A Domestic Story for Daughters at Home (Classic Reprint) Maria J. Greer No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 323 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
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| Title | My mother's diamonds The girl's own favorite library |
| Author | Maria J. Greer |
| Publisher | Griffith and Farran, 1879 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 24 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 368 pages |
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