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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[A meadow is pratum, a flower is called flos] |
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[A meadow is pratum, a flower is called flos]
A meadow is pratum, a flower is called flos,And muscus, my child, is the Latin for moss;
And flumen's a river, and stagnum a pool,
Magister's a master, and schola's a school.
A vineyard is vinea, hortus a garden,
And venia means what in English is pardon;
And pardon my Herbert must certainly ask,
If e'er he's accused of neglecting his task.
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