 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1854 - 614 pages
...seven — I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be ?' Then did the little maid reply, ' Seven boys and girls are we ; Two of us in the churchyard lie,...The little maid replied, ' Twelve steps or more from mother's door, And they arc side by side. 'My stockings there I often knit, My 'kerchief there I hem... | |
 | Mary (aunt, pseud.) - 1854 - 104 pages
...churchyard lie, My sister and my brother, And in the churchyard cottage I Dwell near them with my mother. .You run about my little maid, Your limbs, they are...The little maid replied, Twelve steps or more, from mother's door, And they are side by side. My stockings there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...— I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." Then did the little maid reply, — " Seven boys and girls are we ; Two of us in the churchyard lie,...limbs they are alive ; If two are in the churchyard kid, Then ye are only five." " Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied,... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1854 - 592 pages
...seven — I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be ?' Then did the little maid reply, ' Seven boys and girls are we ; Two of us in the churchyard lie,...churchyard tree.' ' You run about, my little maid, Your Jim!.-, they are alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then ye are only five. ' Their graves are... | |
 | Reading book - 1854 - 300 pages
...— I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." Then did the little maid reply, — " Seven boys and girls are we ; Two of us in the churchyard lie, Beneath the churchyard tree," " Tou run about, my little maid, Tour limbs they are alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then... | |
 | Edwin Davies (D.D.) - Bereavement - 1854 - 156 pages
...; I pray you tell, Sweet maid ! how this may be ? Then did the little maid reply, — ' Seven boys and girls are we ; Two of us in the churchyard lie, Beneath the churchyard]tree.' ' You run about, my little maid, Your limbs, — they are alive ; If two are in the... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...— I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." Then did the little maid reply, — " Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in the churchyard lie,...replied, " Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, " My stockings there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem ; And there upon the ground I sit, I sit... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...— I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." Then did the little maid reply, — " Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in the churchyard lie....replied, " Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, •' My stockings there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem ; And there upon the ground I sit, I... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - English poetry - 1855 - 188 pages
...seven!—I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." Then did the little maid reply, " Seven boys and girls are we ; Two of us in the churchyard lie,...green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, [door, My stockings there I often knit, My kerchiefs there I hem : And there upon the ground I sit,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1855 - 520 pages
...seven, I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be V Then did the little maid reply, " Seven boys and girls are we ; Two of us in the churchyard lie...are in the churchyard laid, Then ye are only five." 11 Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from... | |
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You say that two at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea, Yet ye are seven ! I pray you tell, Sweet Maid, how this may be.' Then did the little Maid reply, ' Seven boys and girls are we ; Two of us in the church-yard lie, Beneath the church-yard tree. 
