Gleanings from the Poets for Home and SchoolW. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1851 |
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... wild , The parents ' fondness spoiled the child ; The youth in vagrant courses ran . Now , abject , stooping , old , and wan , Their fondling is the beggar man . LULLABY ON AN INFANT CHIEF . - W . Scott . O , HUSH thee , my baby , thy ...
... wild , The parents ' fondness spoiled the child ; The youth in vagrant courses ran . Now , abject , stooping , old , and wan , Their fondling is the beggar man . LULLABY ON AN INFANT CHIEF . - W . Scott . O , HUSH thee , my baby , thy ...
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... wild , Was set a marble image Of the Virgin and the child . Here , oft , on summer evenings , A lovely boy would rove , To play beside the image That sanctified the grove . Oft sat his mother by him , Among the shadows dim , And told ...
... wild , Was set a marble image Of the Virgin and the child . Here , oft , on summer evenings , A lovely boy would rove , To play beside the image That sanctified the grove . Oft sat his mother by him , Among the shadows dim , And told ...
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... wild - wood brownies Came sliding to her mind , She drove them thence , as she was told , With home - thoughts sweet and kind . But all that while the brownies Within the fir - wood still , They watched her how she picked the wood , And ...
... wild - wood brownies Came sliding to her mind , She drove them thence , as she was told , With home - thoughts sweet and kind . But all that while the brownies Within the fir - wood still , They watched her how she picked the wood , And ...
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... wild , Through moist rank grass , by trickling streams , Went on the willing child . And when she came to the lonesome glen , She kept beside the burn , And neither plucked the strawberry - flower Nor broke the lady - fern . And while ...
... wild , Through moist rank grass , by trickling streams , Went on the willing child . And when she came to the lonesome glen , She kept beside the burn , And neither plucked the strawberry - flower Nor broke the lady - fern . And while ...
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... wild bee's wings Make music all day long , And the cricket at night ( A dusky sprite ! ) Takes up the song . He loved to lie where his wakeful eye Could keep me still in sight , Whence a word or a sign , Or a look of mine , Brought him ...
... wild bee's wings Make music all day long , And the cricket at night ( A dusky sprite ! ) Takes up the song . He loved to lie where his wakeful eye Could keep me still in sight , Whence a word or a sign , Or a look of mine , Brought him ...
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