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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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[Saltus is a lawn or glade]

Saltus is a lawn or glade,
Open space in wood or grove,
Deer will quit the sylvan shade,
There to sport and freely rove:
There a little purling brook
O'er its pebbly bed is playing;
Sheep for tender herbage look,
By its margin softly straying.