The Mistress of the Manse

Produced by Al Haines
SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO
1874
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
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A fluttering bevy left the gate With hurried steps, and sped away; And then a coach with drooping freight, Wrapped in its film of dusty gray, Stopped; and the pastor and his mate
Stepped forth, and passed the waiting door, And closed it on the gazing street. Oh Philip! She could say no more. Oh Mildred! You're at home, my sweet,— The old life closed: the new before!
Dinah, the mistress! And the maid, Grown motherly with household care And loving service, and arrayed In homely neatness, took the pair Of small gloved hands held out, and paid
Her low obeisance; then— this way! And when she brought her forth at last, To him who grudged the long delay, He found the soil of travel cast, And Mildred fresh and fair as May.