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Página 12 - Quick as he in feats of art, Far beyond in joy of heart. Were her antics played in the eye Of a thousand standers-by, Clapping hands with shout and stare, What would little tabby care For the plaudits of the crowd ? Over happy to be proud, Over wealthy in the treasure Of her own exceeding pleasure!
Página 183 - ... mulberry tree Into silken threads for me. " All day long, and many a day, Busy silkworms spin away ; Some are ending, some beginning, Nothing thinking of but spinning. "Well for them ! Like silver light, All the threads are smooth and bright ; Pure as day the silk must be Woven from the mulberry tree. " Ye are spinning well and fast ; 'Twill be finished all, at last. Twenty thousand threads are drawn, Finer than the finest lawn ! And as long, this silken twine, As the equinoctial line. What a...
Página 183 - Spinning ever ! now 'tis done ; Silken threads enough are spun. Spinning, they will spin no more ; All their little lives are o'er. Pile them up — a costly heap ! Each in his coffin gone to sleep ! Silkworm on the mulberry tree, Thou hast spun and died for me.
Página 70 - ... fins, and rise up to the very top of the water in the face of the sunshine, and bask in it with an evident and intense delight, and then turn slowly down again ; or, at a glimpse of you, go off with a jerk and a dart inconceivably swift. Ay, and to see the great pikes lie basking on the water as still as floating sticks; and see all the birds, — the blackbirds and thrushes that haunt such places, the little chiff-chaff, and the wren, and the kingfisher, skimming past with a quick cry, or sitting...
Página 64 - ... where she shall be eminently qualified to discharge her duty in that station of life unto which it has pleased - shall I say Providence? - to call her.
Página 89 - Little heed we for this or for that ; Off with the bonnet, off with the hat ! Away we go like birds on the wing ! Higher yet ! higher yet !
Página 70 - ... evident and intense delight, and then turn slowly down again ; or, at a glimpse of you, go off with a jerk and a dart inconceivably swift. Ay, and to see the great pikes lie basking on the water as still as floating sticks; and see all the birds, — the blackbirds and thrushes that haunt such places, the little chiff-chaff, and the wren, and the kingfisher, skimming past with a quick cry, or sitting with his red breast full opposite to you, on some old mud-covered bough over the brook, watching...
Página 70 - ... of mazy intricacy as is wonderful. And to see the water-rats come peeping out of their holes and plop into the water ; and the fish dart past like arrows ; or come up out of some deep place, all unconscious of your presence, and therefore as full of a quiet laziness as possible ; balancing themselves on their slowlywaving fins, and rise up to the very top of the water in the face of the sunshine, and bask in it with an evident and intense delight, and then turn slowly down again ; or, at a glimpse...
Página 71 - ... opposite to you, on some old mud-covered bough over the brook, watching for his prey. And here to fish and to bathe ; — to splash into some place deep enough for fun and not deep enough for danger ; some half-dozen of you, laughing, shouting, leaping, frisking, splashing, and dashing, and rioting. O ! that is glorious game on a summer's day. Yes ! there is a world of pleasures in one of those old brooks ; — and...
Página 89 - tis merrier far to swing — to swing ! Down with the hoop upon the green ; Down with the ringing tambourine ;— Little heed we for this or for that ; Off with the bonnet, off...