y gift to win ! Then patters, patters to the ground His bounty, while the squirrels bound. Oh ! its winds blow east, or winds blow west, Four little brown eggs in one nest! Before the wintry winds blow keen, His rugged hands are empty seen ; His head is bare ; he is bent and old, And his jolly days… … THE GOOD GIANT.
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