 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
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 436 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....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. This lady-fly... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 412 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....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. This lady-fly... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 422 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....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. This lady-fly... | |
 | John Gay - 1924 - 114 pages
...milk-white embers fpread. Slow crawl'd the fnail, and if I right can fpell, 55 In the foft Ames mark'da curious L: Oh, may this wondrous omen lucky prove! For L is found in Lubberkin and Love. With my fharp heel I threetimes mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around. 60 Two... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - Poetry - 1926 - 220 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 wondrous... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - Poetry - 1926 - 220 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 wondrous... | |
 | Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - Reference - 2003 - 634 pages
...found, For always snails near sweetest fruits abound; I seized the vermin, home I quickly And “¿ the hearth the milk-white embers spread, Slow crawled the snail and If I right can In the ft ashes marked a curious ‘L'. Oh may this wondrous omen lucky prove: For ‘L' is found in... | |
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