Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 33
p, hop. 14 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY When the rain patters down,I let it wet my crown;And now and then I sipA drop with my lip. Hip, hip, hop. And now I catch a fly,And now I wink my eye,And now I take a hop,And now and then I stop.Hip, hip, hop. And this is all I do,And yet they say its true,That… … THE NAUGHTY LITTLE SPIDER There was a little spider onceAll striped with black and yellow, Was tempted to explore a rose;He Avas a daring fellow. His mother said he must not go,For he was yet too young, Too tiny and too tender yetTo wander in among The many petals of a rose,Or through its stamen…
Nursery rhymes
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