. St. Nicholas [serial]. what we left behind. bywilliam hazlett upson, age PORTRAIT. HEADING FOR SEPTEMBER. BY MARJORIE HENDERSHOT, AGE 6. (SILVER BADGE.) THE LAST FAREWELL. BY MABEL E. FLETCHER (AGE 17).(Winner of Former Prizes.) Dear home, good-by. Along your silent hallsThe little, laughing children trip no more ; A spider gray has draped in black the wallsAnd spun a silver thread down to the floor. Here by the threshold fairy ferns once grew,And here the poplar, to our childish eyes, Stood green and sharp against the shining blue,And touched its swaying top against the skies. Dear hou
. St. Nicholas [serial]. what we left behind. bywilliam hazlett upson, age PORTRAIT. HEADING FOR SEPTEMBER. BY MARJORIE HENDERSHOT, AGE 6. (SILVER BADGE.) THE LAST FAREWELL. BY MABEL E. FLETCHER (AGE 17).(Winner of Former Prizes.) Dear home, good-by. Along your silent hallsThe little, laughing children trip no more ; A spider gray has draped in black the wallsAnd spun a silver thread down to the floor. Here by the threshold fairy ferns once grew,And here the poplar, to our childish eyes, Stood green and sharp against the shining blue,And touched its swaying top against the skies. Dear house, good-by. I know not what you thinkAs here you stand, so empty, bare, and tall. House, can you feel it when the rafters sinkAnd plastering comes crashing from your wall? My childhoods home—oh, never, never moreWill lights flash forth, or merry voices ring, Nor hand of guest be on the sagging door!Oh, can it feel, this empty, living thing? THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE. BY MABEL DEAN (AGE II). Louisiana then belonged to France;for at that time the United States onlyreached as f
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