Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston : Houghton · leaf 70
cage?Should you like to be kept in a prison like me,And never permitted your neighbors to see?Deprived of all means of assisting yourself.Though numberless dainties in sight on the shelf?Should you like to be fed at the w^ill of a master,And die of neglect or some cruel disaster?You cannot believe… … WISHING EiNG-Tiis^G ! I wish I were a Primrose,A bright yellow Primrose blowing in the spring!The stooping boughs above me,The wandering bee to love me,The fern and moss to creep across,And the Elm-tree for our king! ISay — stay ! I wish I were an Elm-tree,A great lofty Ehii-tree, with gi*een…
Nursery rhymes
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