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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CORN.
Spica
means an ear of corn,
Gluma is the husk or sheath;
And arista is the beard—
Granum is the grain beneath.
Gluma is the husk or sheath;
And arista is the beard—
Granum is the grain beneath.
Palea's the name for chaff,
Area the threshing floor;
Better know the whole than half,
Though you have to labour more.
Area the threshing floor;
Better know the whole than half,
Though you have to labour more.
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