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A child's garden of verses (1905)

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935, illus · New York, Scribner · leaf 155

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T95] … II NEST EGGS BIRDS all the sunny day-Flutter and quarrelHere in the arbour-likeTent of the laurel. Here in the fork The brown nest is seated ;Four little blue eggs The mother keeps heated. While we stand watching her Staring like gabies,Safe in each egg are the Birds little babies. [96] Soon the…

Children's poetry, English · Poetry

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