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" John ! Toss the light ball, bestride the stick (I knew so many cakes would make him sick). With fancies buoyant as the thistledown, Prompting the face grotesque and antic brisk With many a lamblike frisk ! (He's got the scissors snipping at your gown... "
The Humorus Poetry of the English Language, from Chaucer to Saxe - Page 420
by James Parton - 1884 - 689 pages
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 41

England - 1837 - 886 pages
...!) Touch'd with the beauteous tints of dawnning life — (He's got a knife !) Thou enviable being ! No storms, no clouds, in thy blue sky foreseeing, Play on, play on, My elfm John ! Toss the light ball— bestride the stick — (1 knew so many cakes would make him sick...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...his plan.) Touched with the beauteous tints of dawning life, (He's got a knife!) Thou enviable being! No storms, no clouds, in thy blue sky foreseeing, Play on, play on, My el tin Jolin! Toss the light ball, bestride the stick, — (I knew so many cakes would make him sick!)...
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The Comic Annual, Volume 8

Thomas Hood - English wit and humor - 1837 - 322 pages
...! ) Touch'd with the beauteous tints of dawning Ufe — (He 's got a knife! ) Thou enviable being ! No storms, no clouds, in thy blue sky foreseeing,...frisk, He 's got the scissors, snipping at your gown ! ) v. Thou pretty opening rose ! (Go to your mother, child, and wipe your nose ! ) Balmy and breathing...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 18

English literature - 1837 - 612 pages
...?) Touch'd with the beauteous tints of dawning life — (He's got a knife !) Thou enviable being ! No storms, no clouds, in thy blue sky foreseeing....would make him sick !) With fancies, buoyant as the thistle down, Prompting the face grotesque, and antic brisk, With many a lamb-like frisk, (He's got...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 41

Scotland - 1837 - 898 pages
...) Thou enviable beinR ! No -i... -in-, no clouds, in thy blue sky foreseeing, Play on, play on, Sly elfin John ! Toss the light ball— bestride the stick—...sick ! ) With fancies buoyant as the thistle-down,' IVompting the face grotesque, and antic brisk. With many a lamb-like frisk, (He's got the scissors,...
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The Common School Speaker: A New Collection of Original and Selected Pieces ...

William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...!) Touched with the beauteous tints of dawning life — (He's got a knife !) Thou enviable being ! No storms, no clouds, in thy blue sky foreseeing,...would make him sick!) With fancies buoyant as the thistle down, Prompting the face grotesque, and antic brisk, With many a lamb-like frisk, (He's got...
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The American Speaker: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises ...

John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...!) Touch'd with the beauteous tints of dawning life — (He's got a knife !) Thou enviable being ! No storms, no clouds, in thy blue sky foreseeing, Play on, play on, My elfin John ! With fancies, buoyant ag the thistle-down, Prompting the face grotesque, and antic brisk, With many...
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Poems of Wit and Humour

Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1847 - 302 pages
...table, that's his plan !) Touch 'd with the beauteous tints of dawning life — Thou enviable being ! No storms, no clouds, in thy blue sky foreseeing,...frisk, (He 's got the scissors, snipping at your gown !) Thou pretty opening rose ! (Go to your mother, child, and wipe your nose ! ) Balmy and breathing...
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Bits of books, from old and modern authors, for railway travellers

Bits - Anthologies - 1847 - 88 pages
...sky foreseeing, (He's got a knife !) My elfin John! Play on, play on, Toss the light ball—bestride the stick, (I knew so many cakes would make him sick...thistle-down, Prompting the face grotesque, and antic brisk Thou pretty opening rose ! (Go to your mother, child, and wipe your nose!) Balmy, and breathing music...
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Poems of Wit and Humour

Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1847 - 314 pages
...table, that's his plan !) Touch'd with the beauteous tints of dawning life— Thou enviable being! No storms, no clouds, in thy blue sky foreseeing, Play on, play on, My elfin John ! Toss the light ball—bestride the stick— (I knew so many cakes would make him sick !) With fancies, buoyant as...
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