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 65
AD A GEXTLE Hind with her yonng Fawn, Once, on a soft spiing day.Upon a bed of dried oak leaves Within a thicket lay. The little Fawn was very yonng. He Avas bnt two days old;His eye was bright, his color light, Fair was he to behold. The mother oft looked ronnd on him,AVith her eye so bright yet… … 46 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY Quick up she springs upon her feet, Her head erect and high,And anxiously she stares aiound, With wild, wide-open eye. The tramp of horses hoofs is heard,A man dismounts near by; Oer bush and bramble, stump and stone,The frightened Hind doth fly. The man is in the thicket…
Nursery rhymes
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