GOODY TWO-SHOES.

 

 

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But above our human woes
Bends an always loving Heaven ;
And to every hungry cry
Is there somewhere answer given.

/ Kind eyes watched the. wandering ones,
Pitied their forlorn distress ;
*  Grieved to note Tom’s ragged coat,

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is And Margery’s tattered dress.

| “ee ’Twas the village clergyman,
&, And he sought them tenderly,
Gave them warm, soft clothes to wear.
Ordered shoes for Margery.

“Two shoes, two shoes,

Oh, see my two shoes!”
So did little Margery cry,
When the cobbler came to try
If they fitted trim and neat ‘
On the worn and tired feet: f
That is how and why she came ;
By so strange a name.

Tom went off to London town;
Margery went to village school;

Apt she was, and quick to learn,
Docile to the simplest rule.

 

Out from the long alphabet if
Letters locked at her and smiled, i

Almost seemed to nod and speak, Y
Glad to know so bright a child,

Ranged themselves in winsome words ;
Then in sentences. Indeed, oe

Quite before she knew the fact,
Margery had learned to read.

  

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