The Home Book of Verse: American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 2H. Holt, 1918 - 4009 pages |
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Page 1972
... ring to wed , Some whiskey to make us gaily ; I've got a feather bed And a handsome new shillelagh . You've got a charming eye , You've got some spelling and reading You've got , and so have I , A taste for genteel breeding ; You're ...
... ring to wed , Some whiskey to make us gaily ; I've got a feather bed And a handsome new shillelagh . You've got a charming eye , You've got some spelling and reading You've got , and so have I , A taste for genteel breeding ; You're ...
Page 2047
... ring , Told him his " unhappy weakness " stopped all thought of marrying . Sleary bore the information with a chastened holy joy , — Epileptic fits don't matter in Political employ , — Wired three short words to Carrie - took his ticket ...
... ring , Told him his " unhappy weakness " stopped all thought of marrying . Sleary bore the information with a chastened holy joy , — Epileptic fits don't matter in Political employ , — Wired three short words to Carrie - took his ticket ...
Page 2048
... ring - no afternoon gentility- No company - no nobility- No warmth , no cheerfulness , no healthful ease , No comfortable feel in any member- No shade , no shine , no butterflies , no bees , No fruits , no flowers , no leaves , no birds ...
... ring - no afternoon gentility- No company - no nobility- No warmth , no cheerfulness , no healthful ease , No comfortable feel in any member- No shade , no shine , no butterflies , no bees , No fruits , no flowers , no leaves , no birds ...
Page 2051
... , And a pound of rice , and a cranberry - tart , And a hive of silvery bees ; - And they bought a pig , and some green jackdaws , And a lovely monkey with lollipop paws , And forty bottles of ring - bo - ree , The Jumblies 2051.
... , And a pound of rice , and a cranberry - tart , And a hive of silvery bees ; - And they bought a pig , and some green jackdaws , And a lovely monkey with lollipop paws , And forty bottles of ring - bo - ree , The Jumblies 2051.
Page 2052
... have tarried : But what shall we do for a ring ? " They sailed away , for a year and a day , To the land where the bong - tree grows ; And there in a wood a Piggy - wig stood , With a ring at the end of his nose , 2052 Just Nonsense.
... have tarried : But what shall we do for a ring ? " They sailed away , for a year and a day , To the land where the bong - tree grows ; And there in a wood a Piggy - wig stood , With a ring at the end of his nose , 2052 Just Nonsense.
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