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" And babes, sweet-smiling babes, our bed. How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung! To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue! And when with envy time transported Shall think... "
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets - Page 120
by George Gilfillan - 1860
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The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 1

William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 pages
...increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. Tke Haffy Meirritgr, E. MOORE. And when with envy Time, transported, Shall think...joys, You '11 in your girls again be courted, And 1 '11 go wooing in my boys. irinl/rn/a. T. PERCY. True love is but a humble, low-born thing, And hath...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...they fondly clung, To see them look their Mother's Features, To hear them lisp their Mother's Tongue ! And, when with Envy Time transported Shall think to rob us of our Joys ; You'll, in your Girls, again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my Boys. D. Lewis's Miscellaneous...
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The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets

Sir John Collings Squire - 1927 - 496 pages
...they fondly clung; To see them look their mother's features, And hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy Time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I go wooing with my boys. JOHN ST LEDGER Extempore To a...
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New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Volume 14

1898 - 630 pages
...cricket-matches, and watch from the pavilion while your son takes block for his first score against the MCC '• And when with envy Time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, I, with my girls (if I ever have any), will sit on the top of a drag (if I ever acquire one) and make...
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The London Mercury, Volume 6

Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - 1922 - 738 pages
...mother's features, How should I love the pretty creatures, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue ! And when, with envy, Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys ; You'll, in your girls, again be courted, And I'll go wooing, in my boys. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES &...
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Thomas Gray: A Life

Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 pages
...fondly clung, To see them look their Mother's Features, To hear them lisp their Mother's Tongue. VIII And, when with Envy Time transported Shall think to rob us of our Joys: You'll, in your Girls, again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my Boys. (PTG 2.87-88) Readers already...
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The Family Library of Poetry and Song

William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 pages
...increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. The Happy Marriage. E. MOORE. n scalded milk. I would not have the horse I drive...folks must stop and stare ; An easy gait — two, fo I '11 go wooing in my boys. Winifreda. T.PERCY. True Love is but a humble, low-born thing, And hath...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and ..., Volume 1, Issue 1 - Volume 3, Issue 30

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 848 pages
...they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And 111 go wooing in my boys. FIRESIDE COMFORTa DEAR Cbloe,...
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Illustrated Library of Favorite Song: Based Upon Folk-songs, and Comprising ...

Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1872 - 718 pages
...they fondly clung, To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue ! And when with envy, Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys. You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP....
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Treasury of Minor British Poetry: Selected and Arranged with Notes

John Churton Collins - 1896 - 502 pages
...they fondly clung; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, Time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. CLV THE TOUCH STONE ANON. A FOOL...
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