 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
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - Forest ecology - 1879 - 300 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....lucky prove ! For L is found in Lubberkin and Love. 1 2 THE WOODLANDS. CHAPTER XVII. GALLS AND PARASITES. CERTAIN plants are liable to be punctured in... | |
 | John Gay - 1879 - 606 pages
...reveal; 5o 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... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1880 - 340 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... | |
 | William Jones - Superstition - 1880 - 634 pages
...seiz'd the vermin, whom I quickly sped, And on theearlh the milk-white embers spread. Slow crawl'd the snail, and if I right can spell, In the soft ashes mark Ma curious L ; O may this wondrous omen lucky prove ! For L is found in Lubberkin and Love. With... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...snails near sweetest fruit abound). 1 seized the vermin, whom I quickly sped, And on the earth tho milk-white embers spread. Slow crawled the snail, and, if I right can sptll, In the soft ashes marked a curious L. Oh may this wondrous omen lucky prove ! For L is found... | |
 | Natural history - 1885 - 408 pages
...searched to tind 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....lucky prove, For L is found in Lubberkin and Love." KOBT. ROGERS, Hampton-in-Arden, Warwickshire. METEOROLOGICAL REPORT AND OI OCTOBER. IONS, 1884. THE... | |
 | 1887 - 726 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....home I quickly sped, And on the hearth the milk-white ashes spread. Slow crawled the snail, and if I right can spell, In the soft ashes marked a curious... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1893 - 380 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, 55 In the soft ashes mark'da curious L : Oh, may this... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1893 - 402 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, 55 In the soft ashes mark'da curious L : Oh, may this... | |
 | Edmund Kerchever Chambers - Country life - 1895 - 368 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 crawl'd the snail, and, if I right can spell In the soft ashes mark'da curious L; Oh, may this wondrous... | |
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