DOROTHY’S DREAM.


THIS is the queer little fairy dream

That came to Dorothy Brown:

“I was lost,” she said, “in the deep blue sea,

A thousand fathoms down;

There were branching corals and waving trees,

And water-maids, good and fair,

Who fed the fishes from pearly dishes,

And gave to the least a share.

There were schools of fishes, but never a book;

There was sunlight without a sun;

There were ways to roam, but not any home,

And mothers—there were none!”