Mother Goose, Or, National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs

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J.L. Peters, 1873 - Children's songs - 110 pages
 

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Page 14 - Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them, Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 57 - ... children sliding on the ice. Upon a summer's day; As it fell out, they all fell in. The rest they ran away. Now had these children been at home. Or sliding on dry ground. Ten thousand pounds to one penny They had not all been drowned. You parents all that children have, And you that have got none. If you would have them safe abroad, Pray keep them safe at...
Page 11 - I often watch for you In the pretty sky so blue. Little Star! O tell me, pray, Where you hide yourself all day? Have you got a home like me, And a father kind, to see? Little Child! at you I peep While you lie so fast asleep; But when morn begins to break, I my homeward journey take. For...

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