The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby (1915)
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875, Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath), 1872-1944, ill · Boston : Houghton Mifflin · leaf 219
n. Of course I will, you little duck. I should like totake you with me and cuddle you all the way, only Imust not; and away she went. So Tom really tried to be a good boy and tormentedno sea-beasts after that as long as he lived; and he isquite alive, I assure you still. W.B. 193 o THE WATER BABIES… … 194 CHAPTER VI Thou little child, yet glorious in the nightOf heaven-born freedom on thy Beings height,Why with such earnest pains dost thou provokeThe Years to bring the inevitable yoke—Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ?Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight,And custom lie…
Fairy tales · Chimney sweeps
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