| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea. Yet you are seven, I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be V Then did the little maid reply, " Seven boys and girls...Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from mother's door, And they are side by side. My stockings there... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...that two at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea, Yet ye are seven ! — I pray you tell, Sweet Maid, how this may be." Then did the little Maid reply,..."Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little Maid replied, "Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side. My stockings... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1839 - 302 pages
...dwell, And two are gone to sea ; Yet you are seven ; I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may he." Then did the little maid reply, " Seven boys and girls...Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from mother's door, And they are side by side. " My stockings... | |
| Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...dwell, And two are gone to sea, Yet ye are seven !—I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." Thus did the little maid reply : " Seven boys and girls...churchyard laid, Then ye are only five." " Their graves are green—they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And... | |
| Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...that two at Conway dwell. And two are gone to sea ; Yet ye are seven ! I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." Then did the little maid reply,...churchyard tree." " You run about, my little maid ; " Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied : " Twelve steps or more from... | |
| H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...treasure from beneath than fetch it from above. 1 /,.,, ' (South.) Then did the little maid repljt \ . • Seven Boys and girls are we; Two of us in the church-yard lie, ' Beneath the church-yard tree.« (Wordsworth's Poems.) IVo stores beneath its humble thatch Requir'da master's care; The wicket opening... | |
| American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...that two at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea, Yet ye are seven! — I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." Then did the little maid reply,..."Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side. " My stockings... | |
| Theology - 1842 - 514 pages
...child is represented as insisting on it, that they were seven, though two of the number were dead. " Then did the little maid reply, Seven boys and girls...are alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then you are only five. Their graves are green, They may be seen, The little maid replied, Twelve steps... | |
| Religion - 1842 - 1046 pages
...child is represented as insisting on it, that they were seven, though two of the number were dead. " Then did the little maid reply, Seven boys and girls...are alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then you are only five. Their graves are green, They may be seen, The little maid replied, Twelve steps... | |
| Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...that two at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea, Yet ye are seven ? I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be ? Then did the little maid reply,...Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied ; " Twelve steps or more from mother's door, And they are side by side. " My stockings... | |
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