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The blue poetry book (1912)

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill, Speed, Lancelot, 1860-1931, ill · New York, Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 84

An illustration from The blue poetry book, 1912, leaf 84
reak my heart, thou bonie bird, That sings beside thy mate ;For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o my fate. Aft hae I rovd by bonie Doon,To see the woodbine twme. And ilka bird sang o its love.And sae did I o mine. Wi lightsome heart I pud a rose Frae off its thorny tree ;And my fause luver… … So loth we part from all we love,From all the links that bind us; So turn our hearts, whereer we rove.To those weve left behind us ! 66 AS SLOW OUB SHIP When, round the bowl, of vanished years We talk, with joj^oiis seeming,—With smiles, that might as well be tears So faint, so sad their…

English poetry · Children's poetry

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