 found, For always snails near sweetest fruit abound. I seized the vermin; home I quickly sped, And on the hearth the milk-white embers spread : Slow crawled the snail, and if I right can spell, In the soft ashes marked a curious L. Oh ! may this wondrous...  Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 21854Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 418 pages
...milk-white embers spread. Slow crawl'd the snail, and, if a right can spell, In the soft ashes mark'da curious L; Oh, may this wond'rous omen lucky prove! For L is found in Lubberkin and Love. “With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around.”... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 438 pages
...milk-white emoers spread : Slow crawl'd the snail, and if 1 right can speil, 55 In the soft ashes mark'da curious L ; Oh ! may this wondrous' omen lucky prove : For L is found in Lubberkin and love. [ground, ' With my sharp heel 1 three times mark ihe And turn me thrice around, around, around. 60... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...milk-white embers spread. Slow crawl'd the snail, and, if a right can spell, In the soft ashes mark'da curious L; Oh, may this wond'rous omen lucky prove ! For L is found in Lubberkin and Love. " With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around." Two... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...search'd to find a snail That might my secret lover's name reveal; 50 Upon a gooseberry-bush a snail I found, For always snails near sweetest fruit abound....And on the hearth the milk-white embers spread: Slow crawl'd the snail, and if I right can spell, In the soft ashes mark'da curious L: 56 Oh ! may this... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 404 pages
...search'd to find a snail That might my secret lover's name reveal; Upon a gooseberry bush a snail I found, For always snails near sweetest fruit abound....And on the hearth the milkwhite embers spread: Slow crawl'd the snail, and if I right can spell, In the soft ashes mark'da curious L: Oh! may this wondrous... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1826 - 376 pages
...reveal; Upon a gooseberry bush a snail I found, For always snails near sweetest fruit abound. I seiz'd the vermin, home I quickly sped, And on the hearth the milk-white embers spread. Slow crawl'd the snail, and if I right can spell, In the soft ashes mark'da curious L: Oh, may this wondrous... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1827 - 858 pages
...gooseberry-bush a snail I found, For always snails near sweetest fruit abound. I seiz'd the vermine ; home I quickly sped, And on the hearth the milk-white embers spread , Slow crawl'd the snail, and if I right can spell, In the soft ashes mark'da curious L : Oh, may this wond'rous... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...seiz'd the vermine, whom I quickly sped, And on the earth the milk-white embers spread. Slow crawl'd the snail ; and, if I right can spell, In the soft ashes mark'da curious L. Oh, may this wondrous omen lucky prove ! For L is found in Lubberkin and Love. '... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 410 pages
...search'd to find a snail That might my secret lover's name reveal; Upon a gooseberry bush a snail I found, For always snails near sweetest fruit abound....And on the hearth the milkwhite embers spread Slow crawl'd the snail, and if I right can spell, In the soft ashes mark'da curious L: Oh! may this wondrous... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Folklore - 1828 - 364 pages
...search'd to find a snail That might my secret lover's name reveal; Upon a gooseberry-bush a snail I found, For always snails near sweetest fruit abound....And on the hearth the milk-white embers spread. Slow erawl'd the snail, and if I right can spell, In the soft ashes mark'da curious L: Oh, may this wond'rous... | |
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