Gleanings from the Poets for Home and SchoolW. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1851 |
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... unto his little heart , He must have his courage ready , Keep his voice and visage steady , Brace his eyeballs stiff as drum , That a tear may never come , And his grief must only speak From the color in his cheek . This and more he ...
... unto his little heart , He must have his courage ready , Keep his voice and visage steady , Brace his eyeballs stiff as drum , That a tear may never come , And his grief must only speak From the color in his cheek . This and more he ...
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... unto the lonesome glen , And milk the mother - ewe ! " All down into the lonesome glen , Through copses thick and wild , Through moist rank grass , by trickling streams , Went on the willing child . And when she came to the lonesome ...
... unto the lonesome glen , And milk the mother - ewe ! " All down into the lonesome glen , Through copses thick and wild , Through moist rank grass , by trickling streams , Went on the willing child . And when she came to the lonesome ...
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... Unto the good old grandmother Went gladly back again . Thus happened it to Mabel On that midsummer day , And these three fairy - blessings She took with her away . ' Tis good to make all duty sweet , To be alert and kind ; " T is good ...
... Unto the good old grandmother Went gladly back again . Thus happened it to Mabel On that midsummer day , And these three fairy - blessings She took with her away . ' Tis good to make all duty sweet , To be alert and kind ; " T is good ...
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... unto the end ; His heart is oak , yet unto us It like the gentlest reed can bend . A fighting soldier he has been , Yet by his manners you would guess That he his whole long life had spent In scenes of country quietness . His talk is ...
... unto the end ; His heart is oak , yet unto us It like the gentlest reed can bend . A fighting soldier he has been , Yet by his manners you would guess That he his whole long life had spent In scenes of country quietness . His talk is ...
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... unto my boy and girl , No friends else have I here . To God and you I do commend My children night and day ; But little while , be sure , we have Within this world to stay . " You must be father and mother both , And uncle , all in one ...
... unto my boy and girl , No friends else have I here . To God and you I do commend My children night and day ; But little while , be sure , we have Within this world to stay . " You must be father and mother both , And uncle , all in one ...
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