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Identifier: poetryforchildre00lamb (find matches)
Title: Poetry for children
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847 Green, Winifred Gollancz, Israel, Sir, 1864-1930 Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
Subjects: Children's poetry, English
Publisher: (London) : Published by J.M. Dent & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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XXXIII LATELY an equipage I overtook,And helpd to lift it oer a narrow brook;No horse it had, except one boy, who drewHis sister out in it the fields to view. 0 happy town-bred girl, in fine chaise going For the first time to see the green grass growing IThis was the end and purport of the ride, 1 learnd, as walking slowly by their sideI heard their conversation. Often she— Brother, is this the country that I see ? The bricks were smoking and the ground was broke,There were no signs of verdure when she spoke.He, as the well-informd delight in chidingThe ignorant, these questions still deriding,To his good judgment modestly she yields;Till, brick-kilns past, they reachd the open fields.Then, as with rapturous wonder round she gazesOn the green grass, the buttercups and daisies,— nc
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118 POETRY FOR CHILDREN This is the country, sure enough! * she cries: Ist not a charming place ? The boy replies, Well go no further. No, says she, no need:No finer place than this can be, indeed 1I left them gathering flowers, the happiest pairThat ever London sent to breathe the fine fresh air.
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