Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898 · Boston : [J. Wilson & Son, University Press] · leaf 106
miles he led them thus,While they for bread complain : Stay here, quoth he ; Ill bring ye breadWhen I do come again. These pretty babes, with hand in hand.Went wandering up and down ; But never more they saw the manApproaching from the town. Their pretty lips with blackberriesWere all besmeared and… … \v 111 1 1 ll jgj ll ffl m i ^ ^ jM m 1 ft m ~^^/s^^>s No burial these pretty babes Of any man receives.Till Robin Redbreast painfully Did cover them with leaves. And now the heavy wrath of God Upon their uncle fell;Vea, fearful fiends did haunt his house, His conscience felt a hell. 88 THE…
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