A TREASURY OF STORIES, J/{INGLES AND RHYMES.

SWEDISH CHILD.

MET a little Swedish child,
And deep and thoughtful were her eyes ;
My willing fancy she beguiled
With many a legend strange and wild.

. She told of witching

   
 

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water-sprites
Of nimble dwarfs
and giants grim,
, Of dancers ’mid the
Northern Lights
' That wave their ban-
ners oer the

heights.

She sang me many a cunning rhyme,
Then up she rose in haste, and cried,
“T must be gone, the church-bells chime,

I'll tell the rest another time !”

Ldith M,. Thomas.

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