Popular Rhymes and Nursery: Tales a Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England (Classic Reprint)

Tales of my Nursery! shall that still loved spot, That window corner, ever be forgot. Where through the woodbine when with upward ray Gleam dthe last shadow of departing day, Still did I sit, and with unwearied eye. Read while I wept, and scarcely paused to sigh! In that gay drawer, with fairy fictions stored, When some new tale was added to my hoard. While oer each page my eager glance was flung, Twas but to learn what female fate was sung; If no sad maid the castle shut from light, I heeded not the giant and the knight. Sweet Cinderella, even before the ball, How did I love thee ashes, rags, and all! What bliss I deem dit to have stood beside, On every virgin when thy shoe was tried !H ow long dto see thy shape the slipper suit! But, dearer than the slipper, loved the foot. A non.
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