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 287
scull and scroll,Oer books and bones the enchanter stole;He strove the spell-word to recall.That would his spirit disenthrall;In vain; for in that fatal strife.Fear, rage, revenge so wildly raved.They stifled memorys voice; and lifeWas lost, that but a word had saved;Just as it burned before his… … But .see, within their liery eyes Why start they thus Avith nostrils wideWhat spectre have the steeds espied?Fioni out the gleamin^ casement, lo,A tioo]) of startled denic^ns <>-o.Who VI met at the mauicians callTo revel in his hainiuct hall. 268 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY The king whose heavy…
Nursery rhymes
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