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Poetry for children (1880)

Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898 · Boston : [J. Wilson & Son, University Press] · leaf 218

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r dimpled hand in mine ; I was only playing, she whispered, That I was ninety-nine. THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD. They grew in beauty, side by side,They filled one home with glee ; Their graves are severed far and wide.By mount, and stream, and sea. The same fond mother bent at nightOer each fair,… … 200 THE gravp:s of a household. The sea, the blue, lone sea, hath one ; He Hes where pearls lie deep ;He was the loved of all, yet none Oer his low bed may weep. One sleeps where southern vines are dressed Above the noble slain ;He wrapped the colors round his breast On a blood-red field of Spain.…

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