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 293
oks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ;For ye are living poems,And all the rest are dead.—LONGFELLOW. HERE begins the never-to-be-too-much-studied accountof the nine-hundred-and-ninety-ninth part of the wonder-ful things which Tom saw on his journey to the… … YE ARE BETTER THAN AEE THE BALLADS. 266 THE WATER BABIES or do any other silly vulgar thing which may offendMrs. Bedonebyasyoudid. Now, as soon as Tom had left Peacepool, he cameto the white lap of the great sea-mother, ten thousandfathoms deep; where she makes world-pap all daylong, for the…
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