Rhymes and jingles (1903) (14586261828)

Identifier: rhymesjingles00do (find matches)
Title: Rhymes and jingles
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
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Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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GARDEN SONGS. 17
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Sunlight or starlight, Tilly, my nilly,Find me a stem Of the tiger-lily ;Ill fill it full From the fountain there,And spirt the water Over your hair ! 18 RHYMES AMD JINGLES. Good Mistress Sundial, whats the hour? Alack ! to tell you I have nt power.It rains ; and I only can work, you see,When the sun is casting his light upon me.Im nothing at all but a senseless block Whenever his beautiful rays depart;But ask my neighbor, the Four-oclock ;She carries the time o day in her heart. Some one in the garden murmurs all the day ;Some one in the garden moans the night away ;Deep in the pine-trees, hidden from our sight,He murmurs all day, and moans all the night. Wire-locks, Curly-pate, Tangle, and Floss,To make some fine curls they were quite at a loss,Till they found them a field of the bright dandelion,And made the green ringlets with only half trying. GARDEN SONGS. 19 Old Bum of Bumbleby bumped his nose,Trying to light on a damask rose ;He bumped his nose, but he didnt careAs he pitched