Mary Hannay Foott

“ Then they mounted, one with a granted prayer,
And one with a grief unguessed.
“We are going” they said, as they rode away —
“Where the pelican builds her nest!”
They had told us of pastures wide and green,
To be sought past the sunset's glow ”

“ Where the pelican builds her nest!
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