 | 1852 - 890 pages
...little maid. Your limbs are all alive; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then ye are only five. ' " Their graves are green, they may be seen," 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... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Anecdotes - 1852 - 342 pages
...from my Mother's door, And they are side by side. 11. My stockings there I often knit, My 'kerchiefs there I hem ; And there upon the ground I sit, I sit, and sing to them : 12. And often, after sun-set, Sir, "When it is light and fair, I take my little porringer, And eat... | |
 | Mary O. Ward - Children - 1852 - 292 pages
...five." "Their graves are green, they maybe seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from mother's door, And they are side by side. " My stockings there I often knit ; f-fily 'kerchief there I hem ; And there upon the ground I sit — I sit and sing to them. "And often... | |
 | Mary O. Ward - Children - 1852 - 298 pages
...limbs they are alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then you are only five." " Their graves arc green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from mother's door, SONGS FOE. THE " My stockings there I often knit ; My 'kerchief there I hem ; And there... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1853 - 300 pages
...little maid, Your limbs they are alive ; If two are in the church-yard laid, Then ye are only five." " Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little...kerchief there I hem ; And there upon the ground I sit, And sing a song to them. And often after sun-set, Sir, When it is light and fair, I take my little... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...limbs they are alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then ye are only five." " Their graves arc green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, "Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, Aud they are side by side. "My stockings there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem, And there upon... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...little maid ; Your limbs, they are alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then ye are only five.' ' Their graves are green, they may be seen,' 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... | |
 | Edwin Davies (D.D.) - Bereavement - 1854 - 156 pages
...maid, Your limbs, — they are alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then ye are only five.' ' Their graves are green, they may be seen,' The little...I often knit, My 'kerchief there I hem ; And there uprxa the ground 1 sit, I sit and sing to them. And often after sunset, sir, When it is light and fair,... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...little maid, Your 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...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... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1854 - 592 pages
...little maid, Your Jim!.-, they are alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then ye are only five. ' Their graves are green, they may be seen,' 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... | |
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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 churchyard laid, Then ye are only five." "Their graves... 
