Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898 · Boston : [J. Wilson & Son, University Press] · leaf 269
— the best Of all shall be for thee ;I will show thee the eggs in the linnets nest None know about but me. At morn, beside the window-sill, Awoke a birds clear song ;But all wMthin the house was still, — The child was sleeping long.The mother went to his little room, — With all its leaves… … CASAB/ANCA. The boy stood on the burning deck,Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battles wreckShone round him c)er the dead; CASABIANCA. 251 Yet beautiful and bright he stood, ^s born to rule the storm ;A creature of lieroic blood, A proud, though childlike form. The flames rolled…
Children's poetry
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