. Midsummer Eve : a fairy tale of loving and being loved . 114 MIDSUMMER EVE: books—thats the rocks ; and theu the thought came into her head thatthe green moss, with its little hlossoms of white pearl, told her a dale of. ;X the vanities as well as the freshness of youth ; and the grey old mosspreached her a regular soi-mon of wisdom, telling her tales of what ithad seen, and how Gods sunshine mingled with the billows of the lake,even in the stormiest weather; and how, bare as the rock was, it gavethe old moss enough to live on, which the grass of the beautiful meadowswould hardly believe pos
. Midsummer Eve : a fairy tale of loving and being loved . 114 MIDSUMMER EVE: books—thats the rocks ; and theu the thought came into her head thatthe green moss, with its little hlossoms of white pearl, told her a dale of. ;X the vanities as well as the freshness of youth ; and the grey old mosspreached her a regular soi-mon of wisdom, telling her tales of what ithad seen, and how Gods sunshine mingled with the billows of the lake,even in the stormiest weather; and how, bare as the rock was, it gavethe old moss enough to live on, which the grass of the beautiful meadowswould hardly believe possible; and, byn-by, the little starry-eyed snails—tiny striped things—said how pleasantly they lived within them gratebooks: many a time, by the same token, have I seen them snails whenthey wernt altogether so comfortable ; when the good people would beteasing them out of their life, of a moonshiney morning, keeping themfrom their drop of dew. And little wriggling worms, with tassclled horns,spoke to the lady in praise of the barren rocks; and the little fishes, andcurious crawling things, boasted of the shelter and purtection they affordedthem ; and while all this knowledge, and a dale more that I cant thinkof
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