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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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[The top of a tree cacūmen is called]

The top of a tree cacūmen is called,
And umbra is shade or shadow, you see;
To sit in the shade is pleasant enough;
And Herbert shall climb to the top of the tree.