Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme. By Sara Coleridge. The Fourth Edition, with Many Cuts |
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SPLASH AND FLASH.
A Splash and a Flash
Are not the same thing:
To learn it, my Herbert,
Attention must bring;
We speak of a Flash
Of lightning, or fire;
We speak of a Splash
Of water, or mire.
A Flash is quite sudden,
And burning and bright;
A Splash makes you dirty,
Or drenches you quite.
Are not the same thing:
To learn it, my Herbert,
Attention must bring;
We speak of a Flash
Of lightning, or fire;
We speak of a Splash
Of water, or mire.
A Flash is quite sudden,
And burning and bright;
A Splash makes you dirty,
Or drenches you quite.
The boy that would try them,
With pain and with shame,
Would speedily find that
They are not the same.
If Herbert will spell them,
His ear it will strike,
That Flashes and Splashes
Are not quite alike.
With pain and with shame,
Would speedily find that
They are not the same.
If Herbert will spell them,
His ear it will strike,
That Flashes and Splashes
Are not quite alike.
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