 Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you! For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door, And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more; And O! before you hurry by with ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child...  The Riverside Readers: Primer, [First-eighth reader] - Page 115by James Hixon Van Sickle, Wilhelmina Seegmiller - 1911Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1911 - 870 pages
...little Heriot Row world of four. The lamp-post is still in front of No. 17 : For we are very Inoky. with a lamp before the door, And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more. All Scottish children, in those old days of the ladder and the lantern, knew the refrain ' Leerie,... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 598 pages
...Scotch lads were taught to say, " God bless the lamplighter ! " and then thinking wistfully : And O ! before you hurry by with ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night ! If we can take all the poems in the " Child's Garden " as true, we find that Louis was not always... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Children's poetry - 1885 - 124 pages
...can be ; But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I 'm to do, O Leerie, I 'll go round at night and light the lamps with you ! For we are very lucky,...stops to light it as he lights so many more ; And O ! before you hurry by with ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night... | |
 | 1887 - 708 pages
...he can be; But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do, 0 Learie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you ! For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door, And Learie stops to light it as he lights so many more; And 0 ! before you hurry by with ladder and with... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1893 - 364 pages
...he can be ; 'But I, when I am stronger and can choose what Fm to do, O Learie, Til go round at night and light the lamps with you! For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door, Learie stops to light it as he lights so many more ; / before you hurry by with ladder and with light,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 400 pages
...he can be; But I, when 1 am stronger and can choose what I'm to do, O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you! For we are very lucky,...Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more; And O! before you hurry by with ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night!... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...he can be; But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do, O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you! For we are very lucky,...Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more; And O! before you hurry by with ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 392 pages
...he can be; But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do, O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you! For we are very lucky,...stops to light it as he lights so many more ; And O ! before you hurry by with ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night!... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 396 pages
...lucky, with a lamp before the door, And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more; And O! before you hurry by with ladder and with light, O...Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night! MY BED IS A BOAT MY bed is like a little boat; Nurse helps me in when I embark; She girds me in my... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Bookbinding - 1896 - 402 pages
...he can be; But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do, 0 Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you! For we are very lucky,...0! before you hurry by with ladder and with light, 0 Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night! MY BED IS A BOAT MY bed is like a little boat;... | |
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