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Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge (January 26, 1831 – August 21, 1905) was an American children's author and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker. She was the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century.

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Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.

Doubt, Grandma, Grandparent, Long, Long Ago

I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

Church, Fine, Good, Sometimes, Sooth, Turn

Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way.

Clouds, Say, Sky, Way, Whenever

Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.

Care, Day, Grateful, Honest, Loss, Sunshine

Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

Death, Deep, Life Is, Memorable, Mystery

[On The Netherlands:]. . . the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

Country, Entire, Europe, Netherlands, Sponge

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

Earth, Hide, Smiles, Surprise, Waiting

But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.

Brave, Light, Soft, Summer, Warm

But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.

Believe, Death, I Believe, Life Is, Living, Overheadand

Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter!. . . All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!

Coming, Patter, Rain, Ranks, Spring, Wind

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

Dreadful, Dull, Father, Fathers Day, Thing

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

Carefully, Country, Europe, Garden, Netherlands

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

Easily, Hardship, Hardships, Luxuries, Luxury, Returning

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