 | Jane and Ann Taylor: Original Poems for Infant Minds |  |
THE ENGLISH GIRL.
Sporting on the village green,
The pretty English girl is seen;
Or beside her cottage neat,
Knitting on the garden seat.
The pretty English girl is seen;
Or beside her cottage neat,
Knitting on the garden seat.
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Now within her humble door,
Sweeping clean the kitchen floor,
While upon the wall so white
Hang her coppers, polished bright.
Sweeping clean the kitchen floor,
While upon the wall so white
Hang her coppers, polished bright.
Mary never idle sits,
She either sews, or spins, or knits;
Hard she labours all the week,
With sparkling eye and rosy cheek.
She either sews, or spins, or knits;
Hard she labours all the week,
With sparkling eye and rosy cheek.
And on Sunday Mary goes,
Neatly dressed in decent clothes,
Says her prayers (a constant rule),
And hastens to the Sunday School.
Neatly dressed in decent clothes,
Says her prayers (a constant rule),
And hastens to the Sunday School.
Oh, how good should we be found,
Who live on England's happy ground
Where rich and poor and wretched may
All learn to walk in wisdom's way.
Who live on England's happy ground
Where rich and poor and wretched may
All learn to walk in wisdom's way.
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