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Poetry for children (1880)

Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898 · Boston : [J. Wilson & Son, University Press] · leaf 188

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dwell in a palace in heaven. Watts. TO A BUTTERFLY. 1 VE watched you now a full half-hour,Self-poised upon that yellow flower!And, little butterfly, indeed, f I know not if you sleej:) or feed. How motionless ! — not frozen seas More motionless ; and then,What joy awaits you when the breezeHath… … 170 THE PRISONER TO A ROBEST. Come to LIS often, fear no wrong; Sit near us on the bough !Well talk of sunshine and of song,And summer days when we were young;Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now. Wordsworth. THE PRISONER TO A ROBIN WHO CAME TOHIS WINDOW. Welcome! welcome,…

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