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 72
ond of a cage?Should you like to be kept in a prison hke me.And never permitted your neighbors to see?Deprived of all means of assisting yourself.Though numberless dainties in sight on the shelf?Should you like to be fed at the Avill of a master.And die of neglect or some ci-uel disaster?^^>u… … AVI8H1XG KiXG-TiXG ! I wish I were a Primrose,A bright ^a^llow Primiose blowing in tlie springThe stooping boughs above me,The wandering bee to love me.The fern and moss to creep across.And the Elm-tree for onr king! Xay — stay I I wish I were an Elm-tree,A great lofty Elm-tree, with gi-een leaves…
Nursery rhymes
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