Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 407
with such care;No pleasure can I eer enjoy,Till she my pleasure share. How silly now seems our dispute,Not one of us she knows;How pale she looks, how hard she breathesPoor pretty little Rose ! Jane Taylor NEVER PLAY WITH FIRE My pra^^ers I said, I went to bed, And soon I fell asleep:But soon I… … A shout so loud came from the crowd Around, above, below;And in the street the neighbours meet, Who would the matter know. Now, down the stairs run threes and pairsEnough to break their bones; The firemen swear, the engines tearAnd thunder oer the stones. The roof and wall, and stair and all, And…
Nursery rhymes
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