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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[Nemus and silva I've long understood]
Nemus and silva I've long understood,Both are in Latin the names for a wood.
Olor and cygnus are Latin for swan;
Lately I saw one glide gracefully on:
Smooth was the stream that he rested upon,
White was his plumage on which the sun shone.
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