Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 387
When papa or mamma had a job to be done,These good little girls would immediately run;And not stand disputing to which it belonged,And grumble, and fret, and declare they werewronged. Whatever occurred in their work or their play.They are wilHng to yield, and give up their own way:Then let us try… … THE GLEANER Before the bright sun rises over the hill,In the cornfield poor Mary is seen, Impatient her little blue apron to fill With the few scattered ears she can glean. She never leaves off, nor runs out of her place To play, or to idle, and chat;Except now and then just to wipe her hot face,…
Nursery rhymes
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