Hamill, Katharine Forrest · New York, Platt & Peck Co · leaf 82
III I wonder did they ever run To fires hard as they could ?Or if they called it better fun To sit still and be good ?I wonder were they ever small And kept back in the shade ?Or didnt they have to grow at all, But just come ready made? V
Children's poetry, American
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