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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
Coleridge, Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)

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LESSONS IN LATIN.

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[Dens is a tooth, gingīva the gum]

Dens is a tooth, gingīva the gum,
And manus the hand, and pollex the thumb;
A finger is digitus, cutis the skin,
And nasus the nose, and mentum the chin;
And oculus means in Latin the eye,
With which many books you'll read by and by.
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