Word: dryad
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last one is "Jessie," and Jessie appears to be a New Hampshire girl that he met when he was on that tramp last summer. He talks about her as if she were a dryad, or naiad, or something of the sort, and exhibits a cardinal flower that he says formed part of a garland with which he twined her brows. He wrote a poem about her, too, and has got it published in the Echo...
...Dryad to her trysting-place...