A TREASURY OF STORIES, JINGLES AND RHYMES,

ENGLISH. CHILD.

YOU’RE not content with

the roses alone

The roses’ lover you too
would bind!

Ah, little fingers be soft and
kind,

Lightly, lightly, the butterfly
hold! 3

He has only one day to call
his own,

And you, my sweet, have a

thousand-fold.

Edith M. Thomas.

 

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