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 PRUNE.
To give you this savoury Prune
I'm sure was a very good turn;
My Herbert will eat it up soon—
But first he has something to learn.
I'm sure was a very good turn;
My Herbert will eat it up soon—
But first he has something to learn.
This dry wrinkled thing that you see
Has once been a soft swelling plum;
It grew, like our plums, on a tree,
And from a great distance has come.
Has once been a soft swelling plum;
It grew, like our plums, on a tree,
And from a great distance has come.
The figs that are sold in the shop
Were once like the firm shapely pear;
It always is better to stop,
And find out what things really are.
Were once like the firm shapely pear;
It always is better to stop,
And find out what things really are.
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