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 409
;No pleasure can I eer enjoy,Till she my pleasure share. How silly now seems our dispute,JN^ot one of us she knows;How pale she looks, how hard she breathesPoor pretty little Rose ! Jane Taylor ISTEYEK PLAY WITH FIRE My prayers I said, I went to bed. And soon I fell asleep:But soon I woke, my sleep… … A shout .so loud cauiu troui the ciowd Around, above, below;And in the stieet the neighbours meet, Who would the niattei know. Now, down the staiis run threes and pairsEnough to break theii* bones; The firemen swear, the engines tearAnd tlnuider oer the stones. The Ioof and wall, and stair and all.…
Nursery rhymes
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