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Marigold garden : pictures and rhymes (1900)

Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901 · New York : Merrimack · leaf 36

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AT SCHOOL. FIVE little Girls, sitting on a form.Five little Girls, with lessons to learn;Five little Girls, who, Im afraid,Wont know them a bit when they have be said. For little eyes are given to lookAnywhere else than on their book;And little thoughts are given to strayAnywhere—ever so far away. … oh, yes, I am going, and Peggy is going, And motlier is making us new frocks to wear : I shall ha\ e my red sash and my hat with pink ribbons-I know all the girls Avill be smart who are there. And then, too, were going to each take a nosegay—The larger the better—for Phillis to say That all her…

Children's poetry, English

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