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PRIDE.
How proud we are, how fond to show
Our clothes, and call them rich and new,
When the poor sheep and silk-worm wore
That very clothing long before!

The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I;
Let me be dressed fine as I will,

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
Watts.

     
   
   
   
     
    
   

  
     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

GOOD GIRLS.

Two good little girls, Marianne and Maria,

As happily lived as good girls could desire ;

And though they were neither grave, sullen,
nor mute,

They seldom or never were heard to dispute.

If one wants a thing that the other could get,

They never are scratching or scrambling for it,

But each one is willing to give up her right ;

They ’d rather have nothing, than quarrel and
fight.

If one of them happens to have something nice,
Directly she offers her sister a slice ;

Notacting like some greedy children I’ve known,
Who would go in a corner and eat it alone.