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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...it strong and tight. It was fair and delicate, smooth and white. 3. She built her a dwelling, arched and high; Then the poor little spinner lay "down to die. 4. The magic web was her winding-sheet, It measured in length, three fairy feet; 5. And the house she had built became her tomb. She lay all alone in the twilight gloom; 6. But when morning had come and turned to noon Said the master: "Ah! 'tis a fine cocoon!" 7. Then they stripped from her body the robe so rare, To deck the form of a princess fair. 8. Now the silk sweeps over the palace floor, And no one thinks of the spinner more. WE ARE SEVEN. 1. A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? 2. I met a little cottage girl; She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. 3. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad; Her face was fair, yea, very fair--Her beauty made me glad. 4. "Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be?" "How many? seven in all," she said, And wondering looked at me. 5. "And where are they, I pray you tell? She answered, "Seven are we And two of us at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea; 6. "Two of us in the church-yard lie, My sister and my brother; And, in the church-yard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother." 7. "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?" 8. 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." 9. "You run about, my little maid, Your limbs they are alive; If two are in the church-yar...
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