By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder [Wilder, Laura Ingalls]
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780064400053
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Published: 1981-08-15T06:00:00+00:00

“One night when the winds blew bitter,

Blew bitter across the wild moor,

Young Mary she came with her child,

Wandering home to her own father’s door,

Crying, Father, O pray let me in!

Take pity on me I implore

Or the child in my arms will die

From the winds that blow across the wild moor.

But her father was deaf to her cries

Not a voice nor a sound reached the door

But the watch dogs did howl

And the village bells tolled

And the winds blew across the—”

Pa stopped. “That song doesn’t fit!” he exclaimed. “What was I thinking of! Now here’s something worth singing.”

Merrily the fiddle sang and Pa sang with it. Laura and Mary and Carrie sang too, with all their might.

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