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• “Max and Maurice”: Trick First

  Translated by Charles Timothy Brooks
  TO most people who have leisure
  Raising poultry gives great pleasure; …

  Wilhelm Busch

• “Max and Maurice”: Trick Second

  Translated by Charles Timothy Brooks
  WHEN the worthy Widow Tibbets
  (Whom the cut below exhibits) …

  Wilhelm Busch

• “Max and Maurice”: Trick Third

  Translated by Charles Timothy Brooks
  THROUGH the town and country round
  Was one Mr. Buck renowned. …

  Wilhelm Busch

• “Max and Maurice”: Last Trick

  Translated by Charles Timothy Brooks
  MAX and Maurice! I grow sick,
  When I think on your last trick. …

  Wilhelm Busch

• The Jumblies

  They went to sea in a sieve, they did;
  In a sieve they went to sea;
  In spite of all their friends could say, …

  Edward Lear

• The History Lesson

  There was a monkey climbed up a tree,
  When he fell down, then down full he.
  There was a crow sat on a stone, …

  Anonymous

• Sage Counsel

  The Lion is the beast to fight,
  He leaps along the plain,
  And if you run with all your might, …

  Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

• Limericks

  From “a Book of Nonsense”
  THERE was an Old Man with a nose,
  Who said, “If you choose to suppose …

  Edward Lear

• “There was a small boy of Quebec”

  There was a small boy of Quebec,
  Who was buried in snow to his neck;
  When they said. “Are you friz?” …

  Rudyard Kipling

• “There was a young lady of Niger”

  There was a young lady of Niger
  Who smiled as she rode on a Tiger;
  They came back from the ride …

  Anonymous

• The Days Gone by

  O The DAYS gone by! O the days gone by!
  The apples in the orchard, and the pathway through the rye;
  The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the quail …

  James Whitcomb Riley

• Seven Times Two

  Romance
  YOU bells in the steeple, ring out your changes,
  How many soever they be, …

  Jean Ingelow

• In the Season

  It is the season now to go
  About the country high and low,
  Among the lilacs hand in hand, …

  Robert Louis Stevenson

• “Sweet stream that winds”

  Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade,
  Apt emblem of a virtuous maid,—
  Silent and chaste she steals along, …

  William Cowper

• To My Grandmother

  Suggested by a Picture by Mr. Romney
  THIS relative of mine,
  Was she seventy-and-nine …

  Frederick Locker-Lampson

• Maidenhood

  Maiden! with the meek brown eyes,
  In whose orbs a shadow lies
  Like the dusk in evening skies! …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• To a Highland Girl

  At Inversnaid, upon Loch Lomond
  SWEET Highland Girl, a very shower
  Of beauty is thy earthly dower! …

  William Wordsworth

• The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan

  The Shades of eve had crossed the glen
  That frowns o’er infant Avonmore,
  When, nigh Loch Dan, two weary men, …

  Samuel Ferguson

• Lying in the Grass

  Between two golden tufts of summer grass,
  I see the world through hot air as through glass,
  And by my face sweet lights and colors pass. …

  Edmund Gosse

• To the Virgins

  Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
  Old Time is still a flying;
  And this same flower that smiles to-day …

  Robert Herrick

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