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 55
was all very well. I cared not to sip From the honey-cup, I cared not to fly Never so high,High in the sky, the sunlit sky,The bright, the blue, the beautiful sky,To float and to flutter, oh, never so wide,Upward and downward on every side. To pass my hours, Mong the gaiden flowers,So merrily,… … THE POM) l^iiKKK was a Iouiul ])oii(l. aiul a pretty pond, too.About it white daisies and buttercups giew.And dark wee])ino willows, that stooped to the urouiidDippd in theii lon^ branches and shaded it round. A party of ducks to this poud would rejniir. To feast on tlie green water-weeds that grew…
Nursery rhymes
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