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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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Lyra elegantiarum, a collection of some of the best specimens of vers de ...

Frederick Locker- Lampson - 1867 - 428 pages
...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. Unknown. cxv. A MAN may live thrice Nestor's life, Thrice wander out Ulysses' race, Yet never find...
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A household book of English poetry, selected with notes by R.C. Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 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, 30 You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Anon. LXIV A LECTURE UPON...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...of Orders Gray. We 'll shine in more substantial honors, And to be noble we 'll be good.* wincfnda. 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. ibid. My mind to me a kingdom is...
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Catholic World, Volume 11

1870 - 904 pages
...they fondly cluogl 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— ' with a glance at Kyrle— ' And I go wooing with...
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A Household Book of English Poetry, Issue 160

1870 - 462 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, 30 You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Anon. LXVll A LECTURE UPON...
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A Household Book of English Poetry, Issue 160

1870 - 464 pages
...mother's tongue. And when with envy time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, 30 You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Anon. LXVII A LECTURE UPON THE SHADOW. Stand still, and I will read to thee A lecture, Love, in love's...
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The Harp of Renfrewshire: A Collection of Songs and Other Poetical ..., Volume 1

1872 - 552 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. poetic fiction only, or rather...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 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. Surely this is the sort of poetry...
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The Harp of Renfrewshire:: A Collection of Songs and Other Poetical Pieces ...

William Motherwell - 1872 - 592 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. poctic fiction only, or rather...
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The Harp of Renfrewshire: A Collection of Songs and Other Poetical Pieces ...

William Motherwell - 1872 - 556 pages
...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. poctic fietion only, or rather a stroke of satire, by which Dr. Percy was strangely induced to insert...
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