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Fresh flowers for my children (1842)

Gordon, Katharine Parker, Mother · Boston : Samuel G. Simpkins · leaf 138

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PING COUGH. Helen, my blue-eyed dove,With this 1 send, my love, A Christmas gift to thee.Wishing that this bright day.In frolic and in play, To you may happy be. The sunshine of thy face. Thy pretty ways of grace, I m fated not to see : TO HELEN JOSEPHINE, 135 So delicate and fair,You must not… … ( 136 ) TO ARIANA. 1 loved you when a little child, Ariana ;You looked on me and sweetly smiled, Ariana,When you were but a baby mild ;Now you are grown up tall and wild, Ariana,And are by childhoods sports beguiled, Ariana. O, brightly glide the hours away, Ariana,And full of frolic and of play,…

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