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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[Aqua is water, and unda a wave] |
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[Aqua is water, and unda a wave]
Aqua is water, and unda a wave,Sinus a bay, and spelunca a cave.
Vas is a vessel, and cymba a skiff:
Rupes and petra are Latin for cliff:
A skiff means a vessel so light and so limber,
And lignum is wood which is often called timber.
Silva's a wood, a forest, or grove,
In which we delight in summer to rove;
And callis the path by which we may ramble,
And rubus, I know, is the Latin for bramble.
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