PRETTY COW.

Only a tender flower,
Sent us to rear;
Only a life to love

While we are here;

Only a baby small,

Never at rest;

Small, but how dear to us,

God knoweth best.

PRETTY COW

M. BARR.

Thank you, pretty cow, that made
Pleasant milk to soak my bread,

Every day and every night,

Warm, and fresh, and sweet, and white.

Do not chew the hemlock rank,
Growing on the weedy bank;
But the yellow cowslips eat,

That will make it very sweet.

Where the purple violet grows,
Where the bubbling water flows,
Where the grass is fresh and fine,
Pretty cow, go there and dine.

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In the dark blue sky you keep,

And often through my curtains peep;

For you never shut your eye

Till the sun is in the sky.

THE ROBIN REDBREASTS.

As your bright and tiny spark
Lights the traveller in the dark,
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

THE ROBIN REDBREASTS.

Two Robin Redbreasts built their nests

Within a hollow tree;

The hen sat quietly at home,

The cock sang merrily;

And all the little young ones said,

"Wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee!”

One day (the sun was warm and bright,
And shining in the sky)

Cock Robin said, "My little dears,

'Tis time you learn to fly;" And all the little young ones said, "I'll try, I'll try, I'll try!"

I know a child, and who she is

I'll tell you by-and-by,

When mamma says,

“Do this," or

"that,"

She says, "What for?" and "Why?"

She'd be a better child by far

If she would say,

"I'll try."

AUNT EFFIE'S RHYMES,

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THE FAIRIES OF THE CALDON-LOW.

THE FAIRIES OF THE CALDON-LOW.

A MIDSUMMER LEGEND.

"And where have you been, my Mary,
And where have you been from me?"
"I've been to the top of the Caldon-Low,
The midsummer night to see!"

"And what did you see, my Mary,
All up on the Caldon-Low?"

"I saw the blithe sunshine come down,
And I saw the merry winds blow."

"And what did you hear, my Mary,
All up on the Caldon Hill?”

"I heard the drops of the water made,
And I heard the corn-ears fill."

"Oh, tell me all, my Mary

All, all that ever you know;
For you must have seen the fairies
Last night on the Caldon-Low."

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