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Child life: a collection of poems (1871)

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 · Boston, Houghton, Osgood and company · leaf 190

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h of the breathless swing. PICTURES, FANCIES, AND MEMORIES. 173 I hide with you in the fragrant hay, And I whoop the smothered call,And my feet slip up on the seedy floor. And I care not for the fall. I am willing to die when my time shall come, And I shall be glad to go —For the world, at best, is… … Still sits the school-house by the road,A ragged beggar sunning ; Around it still the sumachs growAnd blackberry vines are running. 174 CBILD LIFE. Withiu, the masters desk is seen,Deep scarred by raps official ; The Avai-ping floor, the battered seats,The jaclv-linifes carved initial; The charcoal…

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