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Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

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<div class="figleft"><SPAN name="PIRATE_STORY" id="PIRATE_STORY"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/image_011_01.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="325" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div class="figleft"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_011_02.jpg" width-obs="197" height-obs="281" alt="Illustration" /></div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p class="f3"></p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i8">Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing.<br/> </span> <span class="i10">Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea.<br/></span> <span class="i8">Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring,<br/></span> <span class="i8">And waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i8">Where shall we adventure, to-day that we're afloat,<br/></span> <span class="i10">Wary of the weather and steering by a star?<br/></span> <span class="i8">Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat,<br/></span> <span class="i10">To Providence, or Babylon, or off to Malabar?<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i8">Hi! but here's a squadron a-rowing on the sea—<br/></span> <span class="i10">Cattle on the meadow a-charging with a roar!<br/></span> <span class="i8">Quick, and we'll escape them, they're as mad as they can be,<br/></span> <span class="i8">The wicket is the harbor and the garden is the shore.<br/></span></div> </div> <p> </p> <div class="figcenter"><ANTIMG src="images/image_005.jpg" width-obs="150" height-obs="242" alt="Illustration" /></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figright"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_013_01.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="226" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div class="figright"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_013_02.jpg" width-obs="232" height-obs="174" alt="Illustration" /></div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />

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