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We built a ship upon the stairs / All made of the back-bedroom chairs, …
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Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, / Little frosty Eskimo, …
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Up into the cherry tree / Who should climb but little me? …
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From the bonny bells of heather / They brewed a drink long-syne, …
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Yet, O stricken heart, remember, O remember / How of human days he lived the better part. …
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In the highlands, in the country places, / Where the old plain men have rosy faces, …
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It is the season now to go / About the country high and low, …
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I Have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, / And what can be the use of him is more than I can see, …
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Under the wide and starry sky / Dig the grave and let me lie: …
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I WILL make you brooches and toys for your delight / Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. …
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A Naked house, a naked moor, / A shivering pool before the door, …
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When I was sick and lay a-bed, / I had two pillows at my head, …
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At evening when the lamp is lit, / Around the fire my parents sit; …
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When children are playing alone on the green, / In comes the playmate that never was seen. …
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I Saw you toss the kites on high / And blow the birds about the sky; …
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I read, dear friend, in your dear face / Your life’s tale told with perfect grace; …