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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[Rice is oryza, and milium millet] |
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[Rice is oryza, and milium millet]
Rice is oryza, and milium millet,Corbis a basket,—with fruit let us fill it;
Mus is a mouse, the sly cat means to kill it;
And felis is Latin for cat.
Thus is the frankincense, sweet when you smell it;
Quercus an oak, and the woodman will fell it;
Verbum's a word, and my Herbert can spell it;
And sorex is Latin for rat.
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