AD A GEXTLE Hind with her young Fawn, Once, on a soft spring day,Upon a bed of dried oak leaves Within a thicket lay. The little Fawn was very young, He was but tw^o days old;His eye was bright, his coloi light; Fair was he to behold. The mother oft looked round on him,With her eye so bi-ight yet… … 46 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY Quick lip she springs upon her feet, Her head erect and high,And anxiously she stares around, AVith 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…
Nursery rhymes
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