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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PRICKLES AND THORNS. |
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PRICKLES AND THORNS.
Sentis
means a thorn-bush,
Spina means a thorn;
Go not near the quickset hedge,
Lest your clothes be torn.
Spina means a thorn;
Go not near the quickset hedge,
Lest your clothes be torn.
Spinus means a sloe tree,
Vepres means a bramble;
Try to keep away from it
When you take a ramble.
Vepres means a bramble;
Try to keep away from it
When you take a ramble.
Dumus is a low bush,
Rubus is a brier;
When its blackberries are picked,
Throw it in the fire.
Rubus is a brier;
When its blackberries are picked,
Throw it in the fire.
Ruscus is the knee-broom,
Carduus a thistle;
Goldfinch feasts on thistle-seed;
Hear his slender whistle;
Carduus a thistle;
Goldfinch feasts on thistle-seed;
Hear his slender whistle;
Spanish broom genista is,
Filix is the fern;
In the woodlands you may spy it
Wheresoe'er you turn.
Filix is the fern;
In the woodlands you may spy it
Wheresoe'er you turn.
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