Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life (1873)
Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888, Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904 · London ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons · leaf 164
To wait on my mother one single day.Although she has served her for many a year,Were it not for the winning her silken gear. And that light foot-page with his swinging feather,I know what keeps master and man together;—The master has gold in a purse so fair.And he knows how to spend far better than… … I showed it the woods so green and fair;I bade it list to the breezy air,To the coo of the Doves, so wild and low ;But it clung to my hand and would not go. Ay, then, let the little foot-page so gayMimic his master as best he may;Let the Mistress Ann be as grave as an owl;And the henchman put on…
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