And don't you make any noise ! " So toddling off to his trundle-bed He dreamt of the pretty toys. And as he was dreaming, an angel song Awakened our Little Boy Blue, — Oh, the years are many, the years are long, But the little toy friends are true.... The Stoddard Library: Eliot-Gladstone - Page 192by John Lawson Stoddard - 1913Full view - About this book
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...I could choose what might be mine, It should be that child's petition, Rising to the throne divine. IN THE FIRELIGHT. THE fire upon the hearth is low, And there is stillness everywhere ; Like troubled spirits, here and there The firelight shadows fluttering go. And as the shadows round... | |
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