Babyland. [from old catalog] · Boston, D. Lothrop and company · leaf 47
Lit-tle maids, good day!Flow-ers strew your way ! AN APRIL RAIN. You poor little birds,Its happened again — In the midst of your playDown patters the rain. You were caught in a shower Just so last week,And I thought that morning I ought to speak; I hear you all upA-singing at dawn, AN APRIL RAIN. … I know you have triedEach tree on thelawn, Yet not one of you allHave picked up astraw —Such improvidentbirdsI neer before saw. But I hope you see nowThat it would be bestTo let your play goAnd build you a nest ___ ^f: WHAT THE GRASSES SAID. Who can hear the grass talk ? Very few, I know;Yet it…
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