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" It's dull in our town since my playmates left! I can't forget that I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which the Piper also promised me. For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, Joining the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed and fruit-trees... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 104
1865
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...hand, Where waters gushed and fruit-trees grew, And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And every thing was strange and new ; The sparrows were brighter than...outran our fallow deer, And honey-bees had lost their stints. And horses were born with eagles' wings; And just as I became assured My lame fool would be...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...bereft ' Of all the pleasant sights they see, ' Which the Piper also promised me ; ' For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, ' Joining the town and just...had lost their stings ; " And horses were born with eagle's wings ; " And just as I became assured " My lame foot would be speedily cured, " The music...
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A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which the piper also promised me ; For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, Joining the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed and fruit trees grew, And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And every thing was strange and new ; The sparrows...
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The Children's Garland: From the Best Poets

Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which the Piper also promised me : For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, Joining the town and just...brighter than peacocks here, And their dogs outran our fallow-deer, And honey-bees had lost their stings, And horses were born with eagles' wings ; And just...
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The Children's journal

302 pages
...said, to a joyous land, " Joining tho town and just at hand, „ Where wateis gushed and fruitrtrees grew, . And flowers put forth a fairer hue, , And...fallow deer, 'And honey-bees had lost their stings, 1 And horses were born with eagle's wings ; ' And just as I became assured ' My lame foot would be...
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Spring-time with the poets, poetry selected and arranged by F. Martin

Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which the Piper also promised me : For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, Joining the town and just...brighter than peacocks here, And their dogs outran our fallow-deer, And honey-bees had lost their stings, And horses were born with eagles' wings ; And just...
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Class-book of English poetry, Volume 2

English poetry - 1866 - 192 pages
...pleasant sights they see, Which the piper also promised me ; For he led us, he said, to a joyous laud, Joining the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed...brighter than peacocks here, And their dogs outran our fallow-deer ; And honey-bees had lost their stings, And horses were born with eagles' wings. And just...
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Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, Volume 2

Sabine Baring-Gould - Folklore - 1868 - 422 pages
...bereft Of all the pleasant sigits ibey see. \\"hich the piper also proir.ised me : For he led us. be said, to a joyous land. Joining the town, and just at hand. Where waters gush'd. and fruit-trees grew. And flowers put forth a fairer hue. And every thing was strange and new...
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A household book of English poetry, selected with notes by R.C. Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...pleasant sights they see, Which the Piper also promised me; For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, 2^0 Joining the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed...new ; The sparrows were brighter than peacocks here, 245 And their dogs outran our fallow deer, And honey-bees had lost their stings ; And horses were born...
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Independent First[-sixth] Reader, Volume 2

James Madison Watson - Readers - 1868 - 314 pages
...I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which the Piper also promised me ; For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, Joining the town, and just...fruit-trees grew, And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And every thing was strange and new ; The sparrows were brighter than peacocks here, And their dogs outran...
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