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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WILLIAM AND ROBIN WILLIAM When I meet Peggy in my morning walk, She first salutes the morn, then stays to talk: The biggest secret she will not refuse, But freely tells me all the village-news; And pleas'd am I, can I but haply force Some new-made tale to lengthen the discourse, For O so pleasing is her company, That hours, like minutes, in her presence fly I'm happy then, nor can her absence e'er Raise in my heart the least distrust or fear. Robin When Mary meets me I find nought to say, She hangs her head, I turn another way; Sometimes (but never till the maid 's gone by) ' Good morning ' falters, weaken'd by a sigh; Confounded I remain, but yet delight To look back on her till she's out of sight. Then, then 's the time that absence does torment: I jeer my weakness, painfully repent, To think how well I might have then confest That secret love which makes me so distrest: But, when the maiden's vanish'd for a while, Recruited hopes my future hours beguile: I fancy then another time I'll tell, Which, if not better, will be quite as well; Thus days, and weeks, and months I've dallied o'er, And am no nearer than I was before. WILLIAM Such ways as these I ever strove to shun, Nor was I bashful when I first begun: Freely I offer'd posies to the maid, Which she as freely with her smiles repaid; Yet had I been, like you, afraid to own My loveher kindness had been still unknown. And, now the maiden's kindness to requite, I strive to please her morning, noon, and night: The garland and the wreath for her I bind, Compos'd of all the fairest I can find; For her I stop the straggler going astray, And watch her sheep when she's not in the way; I fetch them up at night, and shift th...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217533836 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217533833 |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $10.54 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 178 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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