Rhymes for the nursery By the authors of "Original Poems" [i.e. Ann Taylor]. Twenty-seventeenth edition |
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One little Boy.
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One little Boy.
I'm a little gentleman,
Play, and ride, and dance I can:
Very handsome clothes I wear,
And I live on dainty fare:
And whenever out I ride,
I've a servant by my side.
Play, and ride, and dance I can:
Very handsome clothes I wear,
And I live on dainty fare:
And whenever out I ride,
I've a servant by my side.
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And I never, all the day,
Need do any thing but play,
Nor even soil my little hand,
Because I am so very grand:
Oh! I'm very glad, I'm sure,
I need not labour like the poor.
Need do any thing but play,
Nor even soil my little hand,
Because I am so very grand:
Oh! I'm very glad, I'm sure,
I need not labour like the poor.
For I think I could not bear
Such old shabby clothes to wear:
To lie upon so hard a bed,
And only live on barley bread;
And what is worse, too, ev'ry day
To have to work as hard as they.
Such old shabby clothes to wear:
To lie upon so hard a bed,
And only live on barley bread;
And what is worse, too, ev'ry day
To have to work as hard as they.
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