Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 413
THE BABY What is the pretty little thingThat nurse so carefully doth bring,And round its head her apron fling? A baby. Oh, dear, how very soft its cheek:Why, nurse, I cannot make it speak,And it cant walk, it is so weak. Poor baby. Here take a bite, you little dear, I Ve got some cake and…
Nursery rhymes
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