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 53
he barn-door cock. Coek-a-doodle-do I * Au)it Fyfiea R/iyr/ns SONG OF THE BUTTERFLY AVhy I I ve got wings I Such beatitiful 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 1 dont know It was not so Some titne ago.-… … Were nnade in the piison so tight, so tight. Where t was always night; Always, always, dim. dim night. I knew it not then, but 1 know it now. IIow^ they were made and painted so well. All in the (lark and dismal eell I m sure I nevci. oh, nevei* ean ti*ll; But J had no wings. Those beautiful…
Nursery rhymes
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