A Book of Verses for ChildrenEdward Verrall Lucas |
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... door . O ! the holly with her drops of blood for me : For that is our kind Aunt Mary's tree . ' Tis a bush that the birds will never leave : They sing in it all day long ; But sweetest of all upon Christmas Eve , Is to hear the robin's ...
... door . O ! the holly with her drops of blood for me : For that is our kind Aunt Mary's tree . ' Tis a bush that the birds will never leave : They sing in it all day long ; But sweetest of all upon Christmas Eve , Is to hear the robin's ...
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... door , -in the chimney roar , And rattle the window pane ; Let him in at us spy with his icicle eye , But he shall not entrance gain . Let him gnaw , forsooth , with his freezing tooth , On our roof - tiles , till he tire ; But we care ...
... door , -in the chimney roar , And rattle the window pane ; Let him in at us spy with his icicle eye , But he shall not entrance gain . Let him gnaw , forsooth , with his freezing tooth , On our roof - tiles , till he tire ; But we care ...
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... door was shut , as doors should be , Before you went to bed last night ; Yet Jack Frost has got in , you see , And left your window silver white . He must have waited till you slept ; And not a single word he spoke , But pencilled o'er ...
... door was shut , as doors should be , Before you went to bed last night ; Yet Jack Frost has got in , you see , And left your window silver white . He must have waited till you slept ; And not a single word he spoke , But pencilled o'er ...
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... door when all the lights are out , Jack Frost takes every breath you breathe , And knows the things you think about . He paints them on the window pane In fairy lines with frozen steam ; And when you wake you see again The lovely things ...
... door when all the lights are out , Jack Frost takes every breath you breathe , And knows the things you think about . He paints them on the window pane In fairy lines with frozen steam ; And when you wake you see again The lovely things ...
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... door : She never saw the mill worked So merrily before . " Bravely done , my little lads , Rouse up the lazy wheel , For money comes but slowly in When snow - flakes are the meal . " The Windmill BEHOLD ! a giant am I ! Aloft here in my ...
... door : She never saw the mill worked So merrily before . " Bravely done , my little lads , Rouse up the lazy wheel , For money comes but slowly in When snow - flakes are the meal . " The Windmill BEHOLD ! a giant am I ! Aloft here in my ...
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