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Identifier: poetryforchildre00lamb (find matches)
Title: Poetry for children
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847 Green, Winifred Gollancz, Israel, Sir, 1864-1930 Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
Subjects: Children's poetry, English
Publisher: (London) : Published by J.M. Dent & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ave store of good venison, with old canary wine, With singing and music to heighten the cheer;Coarse bits, with grudging, are the paupers best fare.50 POETRY FOR CHILDREN 51 In a costly palace Youth is still caressd By a train of attendants which laugh at my young Lords jest; In a wretched workhouse the contrary prevails,Does age begin to prattle ?—no man hearkeneth to his tales. In a cosily palace if the child with a pin Do but chance to prick a finger, straight the doctor is calld in; In a wretched workhouse men are left to perish,For want of proper cordials, which their old age might cherish. In a costly palace Youth enjoys his lust; In a wretched workhouse Age, in corners thrust, Thinks upon the former days, when he was well to do,Had children to stand by him, both friends and kinsmen too. In a costly palace Youth his temples hides With a new devised peruke that reaches to his sides; In a wretched workhouse Ages crown is bare,With a few thin locks just to fence out the cold air.
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POETRY FOR CHILDREN 53 In peace, as in war, tis our young gallants prideTo walk, each one i the streets, with a rapier by his side, That none to do them injury may have pretence;Wretched Age, in poverty, must brook offence.

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