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Dee and Mal Brown

Rappahannock Westminster-Canterbury
Irvington, Virginia

1 February 2015
But ere they sat, officious Baucis lays
Two cushions stuffed with straw, the seat to raise;
Coarse, but the best she had; then rakes the load
Of ashes from the hearth, and spreads abroad
The living coals, and lest they should expire,
With leaves and barks she feeds her infant fire:
It smokes, and then with trembling breath she blows,
Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arose.
With brushwood and with chips she strengthens these,
And adds at length the boughs of rotten trees.

 

 

 

 

 

        


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