For what are all our contrivingsAnd the wisdom of our books,When compared with your caresses,And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better thnn all the ballads That ever were sung or said ;For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.—LONGFELLOW, CHAPTEE VIII AND LAST … EEE begins thenever-to-be-too-much studiedaccount of thenine - hundred - and -ninety-ninth part ofthe wonderful tilingswhich Tom saw onhis journey to theOther -- end - of -No-where ; which all goodlittle children are re-quested to read; that,if ever they get to theOther-end-of-Nowhere,as they may…
Fairy tales · Chimney sweeps
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