Mary Mapes Dodge



Mary Mapes Dodge (26 January 1831 – 21 August 1905) was an American children's writer and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker.

Along the Way (1879)

 * Along the Way (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879)


 * Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be; Yet oh, how dear it is to us, this life we live and see!
 * "The Two Mysteries", line 11, p. 16.


 * But I believe that God is overhead; And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.
 * "The Two Mysteries", line 19, p. 17.


 * For ever and ever, my darling, yes— Goodness and love are undying; Only the troubles and cares of earth Are winged from the first for flying. Our way we plough In the furrow "now;" But after the tilling and growing the sheaf; Soil for the root, but the sun for the leaf— And God keepeth watch forever.
 * "Trust", stanza 5, p. 57.


 * Whenever a snow-flake leaves the sky, It turns and turns to say "Good-bye! Good-by, dear cloud, so cool and gray!" Then lightly travels on its way.
 * "Snow-flakes", stanza 1, p. 69.


 * But when a snow-flake, brave and meek, Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek, It starts—"How warm and soft the day!" "'Tis summer!" and it melts away.
 * "Snow-flakes", stanza 3, p. 69.