 COME, take up your hats, and away let us haste To the Butterfly's ball and the Grasshopper's feast ; The trumpeter Gadfly has summoned the crew, And the revels are now only waiting for you.  The Nursery Rhyme Book - Page 227edited by - 1897 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...let us haste To the Butterfly 'shall and the Grasshopper's feast; The trumpeter Gadfly has summon'd the crew, And the revels are now only waiting for you. On the smooth shaven grass by the side of a wood, Beneath a broad oak which for ages has stood, See the children... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...Look down, dear parents ! look and see Your happy, happy, orphan-boy. Mus THE BUTTERFLY S BALL. COME take up your hats, and away let us haste To the butterfly's...And the revels are now only waiting for you. On the smooth shaven grass by the side of the wood, Beneath a broad oak that for ages has stood, See the children... | |
 | Catherine Ann Dorset - 1831 - 64 pages
...GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST. BY MR. ROSCOE. • COME, take up your hats, and away let us haste To the Butterßy's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, The Trumpeter, Gadfly,...Crew, And the Revels are now only waiting for you. So said little Robert, and pacing along, His merry Companions came forth in a throng, And on the smooth... | |
 | Flowers - 1835 - 174 pages
...gloom, And heart-corroding strife,— XIV. THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL, AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST. COME take up your hats, and away let us haste To the Butterfly's hall and the Grasshopper's feast: The trumpeter Gad-fly has summon'd the crew, And the revels are now... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...do not know of any murders half so bloody. THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL, AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST. COME, take up your hats, and away let us haste To the Butterfly's...And the revels are now only waiting for you ! On the smooth shaven grass, by the side of a wood, Beneath a broad -oak, which for ages had stood, See the... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...Which nor circumstance nor dress E'er can make or more or less. Da. JoHNSoN. THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL. CoME take up your hats, and away let us haste To the Butterfly's ball, and the Grassliopper's feast. The trumpeter, Gad-fly, has summon'd the crew, And the revels are now only waiting... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1839 - 302 pages
...; Ask of me thy daily store, Ever welcome to my door. Langhorne. 8.— THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL. Come, take up your hats, and away let us haste, To the Butterfly's...side of a wood, Beneath a broad oak, which for ages has stood, See the children of earth, and the tenants of air, For an evening's amusement together repair... | |
 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...Prize at the Manchester Glee Club, 1831. (Novello.) TRIO.— Sir GEORGE SMART. (3 Sopranos.) COME, take up your hats, and away let us haste To the butterfly's...smooth-shaven grass by the side of a wood, Beneath a broad oak that for ages has stood, There the children of earth and the tenants of air For an evening's amusement... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1837 - 400 pages
...vegetables to become cool and gather moisture. THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST. COH E take up your hats and away let us haste To the Butterfly's hall, and the Grasshopper's feast ; The trumpeter Gadfly has summoned the crew, And the revels are... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 850 pages
...tears With baseness and ingratitude. — CHARLOTTE SMITH. THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL. COME, take up your hat, and away let us haste To the butterfly's ball, and...for you. On the smooth-shaven grass, by the side of the wood, Beneath a broad oak that for ages has stood, See the children of earth and the tenants of... | |
| |
