Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898 · Boston : [J. Wilson & Son, University Press] · leaf 181
lp him at work. They help him at play,And the sweet words of Jesus They read every day-He has two ears : Oh, how well he can hearThe birds as they sing, And the boys as they cheer!They are out on the Common, And for him they call;But one word from his mother He hears first of all. He has a tongue… … MT JESSIE. My Jessie lives beyond the town. Just where the moorland, bare and brown, Looks over to the sea :A little maid of lowly birth.But, oh ! of all the girls on earth, The dearest <rirl to me ! MY JESSIE. 163 Few summers hath she known : her eyesAre bluer than the summer skies, And…
Children's poetry
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