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Page 9
... Leaves autumnal strew the ground : Plenty crowns the market measure , While the mill runs briskly round . NOVEMBER . Now the giddy rites of Comus Crown the hunter's dear delight ; Ah ! the year is fleeing from us : Bleak the day , and ...
... Leaves autumnal strew the ground : Plenty crowns the market measure , While the mill runs briskly round . NOVEMBER . Now the giddy rites of Comus Crown the hunter's dear delight ; Ah ! the year is fleeing from us : Bleak the day , and ...
Page 13
... leaves , long litter , or matting , stretched over hoops : remove these cover- ings in mild intervals , but not till the ground is thoroughly thawed , or the sud- den action of the sun will kill them . During fine intervals , when the ...
... leaves , long litter , or matting , stretched over hoops : remove these cover- ings in mild intervals , but not till the ground is thoroughly thawed , or the sud- den action of the sun will kill them . During fine intervals , when the ...
Page 51
... leaf - gold . These cannons being charged with gunpowder , and trains laid , so that you might fire as many of them as you pleased , at one touch ; this castle was set at one end of the table . Then , in the middle of the table , they ...
... leaf - gold . These cannons being charged with gunpowder , and trains laid , so that you might fire as many of them as you pleased , at one touch ; this castle was set at one end of the table . Then , in the middle of the table , they ...
Page 63
... leaves . No one that knew this ditty in child- hood can forget the vernal burial of the infants by " Robin - red - breast . " " 2 Whatever affection we may have for the old common brown paper " garland " of " The Children in the Wood ...
... leaves . No one that knew this ditty in child- hood can forget the vernal burial of the infants by " Robin - red - breast . " " 2 Whatever affection we may have for the old common brown paper " garland " of " The Children in the Wood ...
Page 109
... leaves of the pollard oaks ! Oh , this is rime in its loveliest form ! And there is still a berry here and there on the holly , ' blush- ing in its natural coral ' through the delicate tracery ; still a stray hip or haw for the birds ...
... leaves of the pollard oaks ! Oh , this is rime in its loveliest form ! And there is still a berry here and there on the holly , ' blush- ing in its natural coral ' through the delicate tracery ; still a stray hip or haw for the birds ...
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