Mary Mapes Dodge

American children's writer (1831-1905)

Mary Mapes Dodge (26 January 183121 August 1905) was an American children's writer and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker.

Mary Mapes Dodge

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Along the Way (1879)

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Along the Way (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879)
  • Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be;
    Yet oh, how dear it is to us, this life we live and see!
    • "The Two Mysteries", line 11, p. 16.
  • But I believe that God is overhead;
    And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.
    • "The Two Mysteries", line 19, p. 17.
  • For ever and ever, my darling, yes—
    Goodness and love are undying;
    Only the troubles and cares of earth
    Are winged from the first for flying.
    Our way we plough
    In the furrow "now;"
    But after the tilling and growing the sheaf;
    Soil for the root, but the sun for the leaf—
    And God keepeth watch forever.
    • "Trust", stanza 5, p. 57.
  • Whenever a snow-flake leaves the sky,
    It turns and turns to say "Good-bye!
    Good-by, dear cloud, so cool and gray!"
    Then lightly travels on its way.
    • "Snow-flakes", stanza 1, p. 69.
  • But when a snow-flake, brave and meek,
    Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,
    It starts—"How warm and soft the day!"
    "'Tis summer!" and it melts away.
    • "Snow-flakes", stanza 3, p. 69.
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