Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 51
e a walk with you. Hallo! said the barn-door cock, Cock-a-doodle-do! Atrnt Effieh Rhymes SOXG OF THE BUTTERFLY Why ! I Ve got wings! Such beautiful things.Such beautiful things are they! They are so bright. And so very light,And so easily do they play —How^ they came here I -m sure I dont know It… … Were made in the prison so tight, so tight. Where twas always night; Always, always, dim, dim night. I knew it not then, but I know it now. HoAv they were made and painted so well, All in the dark and dismal cell I m sure I never, oh, never can tell; But I had no wings. Those beautiful things, 34…
Nursery rhymes
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