Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 30
t slumber they fell,While sleeping they hung, they were pleasantly swung As the wind swept the great hanging bell. But see! they awaken, the great bell is shaken. It thrills to the buzz of a bee.^Oh, the wrong bell I Ve taken, I see I m mistaken, I 11 go to another, said he. Then pleasantly said… … THE LAZY SHEEP Lazy Sheep, pray tell me whyIn the pleasant fields yon lie,Eating grass and daisies white.From the morning till the night ?Everything can something do.But what kind of use are you ? ISay, my little master, nay,Do not serve me so I pray;Dont you see the wool that growsOn my back to…
Nursery rhymes
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