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    A Little Freckled Person A Book of Child Verse
    A Little Freckled Person A Book of Child Verse
    A Little Freckled Person A Book of Child Verse
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    A Little Freckled Person A Book of Child Verse

    By Mary Carolyn Davies

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      A Little Freckled Person A Book of Child Verse - Mary Carolyn Davies

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Little Freckled Person, by Mary Carolyn Davies, Illustrated by Harold Cue

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      Title: A Little Freckled Person

      A Book of Child Verse

      Author: Mary Carolyn Davies

      Release Date: May 27, 2010 [eBook #32553]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LITTLE FRECKLED PERSON***

      E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Jennifer Sahmoun,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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      A Little Freckled Person

      A Book of Child Verse

      BY

      MARY CAROLYN DAVIES

      WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HAROLD CUE

      BOSTON AND NEW YORK

      HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

      The Riverside Press Cambridge

      1919

      COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY MARY CAROLYN DAVIES

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      Illustrations

      A LITTLE FRECKLED PERSON

      They think I'm just a little girl

      At study, work, or play,—

      A little freckled person who

      Has never much to say.

      They do not know a princess oft

      In golden gown am I,

      With cheeks like apple petals soft

      And eyes like sea or sky.

      They only see my tumbled braids,

      They do not know I wear

      A crown with turquoises and beryls

      Upon my coiled-up hair.

      They do not know adventures dire

      Beset me, land and sea,

      That page and courtier, knight and squire,

      Before me bend the knee.

      That haughty ships with silken sails

      Upon my bidding go—

      All these, and other happy things,

      They cannot, cannot know.

      They only see a little girl

      At study, work, or play,—

      A little freckled person, who

      Has never much to say!

      The Selfish Sea

      The sea is very, very wide:

      It takes up all the room outside;

      And when I stand beside the sea,

      It comes right up and

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