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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 179

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II TO MY MOTHER Y OU too, my mother, read my rhymesFor love of unforgotten times,And you may chance to hear once moreThe little feet along the floor. [115] … Ill c TO AUNTIE HIEF of our aunts — not only I,But all your dozen of nurselings cry —Wlmt did the other children do 1And what were childhood, wanting you ?

Children's poetry, English · Poetry

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