Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston, New York : Houghton Miffin Company · leaf 284
itfully the strange blue lights;Misshapen monsters lined the wall,A toad upon his chair did crawl,And many a dark and mystic scrawlWas scattered roimd.the room;Puss trembled by the half-shut dooi*.Scarce seen amid the gloom.Then entered, bowing to the floor.And said, xV man of science, sir.At… … They tell me, sir, resumed the eat, With ease you take this shape or that, Now, though at times, even I have dared To dabble in the magic art. Though witches have my converse shared, And Ive defied Deaths frequent dart; rUSS IN BOOTS 2(J.5 I own such wonders seem to me.Beyond tlie power of…
Nursery rhymes
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