POPULAR RHYMES

AND

NURSERY TALES.

LATELY PUBLISHED,

Royal 18mo, with 38 Designs by W. B. SCOTT, Director of the School of Design, Newcastle-on-Tyne, bound in illuminated cloth, 4s. 6d.

POPULAR RHYMES

AND

NURSERY TALES:

A SEQUEL TO THE

Nursery Rhymes of England.

BY

JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ.

LONDON:

JOHN RUSSELL SMITH,

4, OLD COMPTON STREET, SOHO SQUARE.

MDCCCXLIX.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

1881, April 2,

Subscription Enal 81880

1880.

C. AND J. ADLARD, PRINTERS, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.

Tales of my Nursery! shall that still loved spot,
That window corner, ever be forgot,

Where through the woodbine when with upward ray
Gleam'd the last shadow of departing day,

Still did I sit, and with unwearied eye,

Read while I wept, and scarcely paused to sigh!
In that gay drawer, with fairy fictions stored,
When some new tale was added to my hoard,
While o'er each page my eager glance was flung,
'Twas but to learn what female fate was sung;
If no sad maid the castle shut from light,
I heeded not the giant and the knight.

Sweet Cinderella, even before the ball,
How did I love thee-ashes, rags, and all!
What bliss I deem'd it to have stood beside,
On every virgin when thy shoe was tried!
How long'd to see thy shape the slipper suit!
But, dearer than the slipper, loved the foot.

ANON.