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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 160

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Ill THE FLOWERS A LL the names I know from nurse:Gardeners garters, Shepherds purse,Bachelors buttons, Ladys smock,And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy places, fairy things, Fairy woods where the wild bee wings, Tiny trees for tiny dames — These must all be fairy names! [98] All the names 1 know from… … Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb! Fair are grown-up peoples trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all. i-ore [99] G IV SUMMER SUN REAT is the sun, and wide he…

Children's poetry, English · Poetry

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