The Sprague Classic Readers: Book 1-5, Book 3New York, 1902 |
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Argus asters baby beautiful Bethlehem Star better blew blossoms blue sky blue weather blue-eyed grass Bobolink bright brookside brown child Christmas cloak Clytie cold corn crown donkey door Eugene Field eyes field flag flowers give golden Grandmother grapes grass-plant green wrap happy heard heifer Jack Frost Juno JUNO'S BIRD Jupiter lessons little duck little Lottie little pussies Little Red Riding little Rob looked Mamma months mother mouse MOUSELAND nest night North Wind nuts nymphs Pacific Ocean peacock pipe Pittypat and Tippy poor pot of butter preface pretty pumpkin pumpkin pie pupils purple Pussy Willow knows Red Riding Hood Robin Samson sang sheep sing sleep snow Snowdrop songs Spring stork story summer sweet TEACHER tell thank Thee things Tippy toe to-day tree violets Wake warm wolf yellow
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Page 106 - Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all. He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play, And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way. He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me! One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I rose and found the shining dew on every...
Page 154 - I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going...
Page 1 - Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.
Page 37 - SUMMER is coming, summer is coming. I know it, I know it, I know it. Light again, leaf again, life again, love again,' Yes, my wild little Poet. Sing the new year in under the blue. Last year you sang it as gladly. ' New, new, new, new ! ' Is it then so new That you should carol so madly? ' Love again, song again, nest again, young again,' Never a prophet so crazy ! And hardly a daisy as yet, little friend, See, there is hardly a daisy.
Page 93 - No, leave them alone Till the blossoms have grown," Prayed the Tree, while he trembled from rootlet to crown. The Tree bore his blossoms, and all the birds sung; "Shall I take them away?
Page 47 - Don't ask me again, Why, I haven'ta chick Would do such a trick. We all gave her a feather, And she wove them together. I'd scorn to intrude On her and her brood. Cluck! Cluck!" said the hen, "Don't ask me again.
Page 148 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Page 46 - Bow-wow! I wouldn't be so mean, anyhow! I gave the hairs the nest to make, But the nest I did not take. Not I," said the dog,
Page 45 - To-whit! to-whit! to-whee! Will you listen to me? Who stole four eggs I laid, And the nice nest I made?
Page 154 - I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains : From whence shall my help come ? My help cometh from the Lord, Which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved • He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel Shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper : The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, Nor the moon by night.