 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
 | John Timbs - Science - 1844 - 306 pages
...That might my lover's name reveal ; ! placed it on " the milk-white embers spread," when 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.—... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1847 - 376 pages
...That might my secret lover's name reveal; 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 marked a curious L; Oh, may this wond'rous... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Children's stories - 1849 - 308 pages
...reveal; Upon a gooseberry bush a snail I found, Eor 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 woudrous... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 398 pages
...searched 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 if I right can spell, In the soft ashes marked a curioua L. Oh 1 may this wondrous omen lucky prove, For L is found in Lubberkin and Love.' A gentleman... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 314 pages
...; 50 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 crawTd the snail, and if I right can spell, 55 In the soft ashes mark'da curious L: Oh ! may this wondrous... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 880 pages
...the hearth the milk-white embers spread . I seii'd the vermine ; home I quickly sped, Slow crawl'd the snail, and if I right can spell, In the soft ashes mark'da curious L : Oh, may this wond'rous oraen lucky prove! For L is found in Luberkin and Love.... | |
 | Ralph Tate - Mollusks - 1866 - 336 pages
...search'd to find a snail, That might my secret lover's name reveal. Upon a goosebeny-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. Oh ! may this wondrous... | |
 | BEETON - 1875 - 696 pages
...bowl. In the morning the anxious maid find in the shiny track the initials of her sweetname :— " Slow crawled the snail, and if I right can spell, In the soft ashes marked л curious L ; Oh ! may the wondrous omen lucky prove, Kur L is found in Lubbcrkin and Love." xtreme... | |
 | John Porter - Fylde (England) - 1876 - 516 pages
...sweetest fruit abound. I seiz'd 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." 1 This couplet was recited by young maidens after capturing an insect called a Lady-bird, and on releasing... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 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 marked a curious L ; Oh ! may this wondrous... | |
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