The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 446
ssed (And on went Gelert too).And still, whereer his eyes were cast. Fresh blood-gouts shocked his view! Oerturned his infants bed he found. The blood-stained cover rent;And all around the walls and groundWith recent blood besprent. He called his child — no voice replied; He searched with terror… … His suppliant, as to earth he fell.No pity could impart;But still his Gelerts dying yellPassed heavy oer his heart. Aroused by Gelerts dying yell.Some slumberer wakened nigh ; What words the parents joy can tell,To hear his infant cry! Concealed beneath a mangled heap.His hurried search had missed.…
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