 | Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 pages
...soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved ; so I said, ' Hush, Tom ! never mind it, for...hair.' And so he was quiet, and that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight; That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack, Were all... | |
 | William Blake - 1866 - 132 pages
...soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre,* who cried when his head, That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shaved ; so I said : " Hush, Tom, never mind it, for...And so he was quiet ; and that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight, That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack, Were all... | |
 | John Timbs - 1866 - 336 pages
...soot I sleep. " There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head That curl'd like a lamh's back, was shaved ; so I said, Hush, Tom, never mind it, for...spoil your white hair. " And so he was quiet — and on that very night, As Tommy was sleeping, he had such a sight ; There thousands of sweepers, Dick,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, 5 That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved ; so I said, ' Hush, Tom ! never mind it, for...hair.' And so he was quiet, and that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight ; 10 That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack, Were... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1869 - 294 pages
...soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved ; so I said, — " Hush, Tom ! never mind it,...hair." And so he was quiet, and that very night, As Tom was a sleeping, he had such a sight : That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack, Were all... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pages
...little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, 5 That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved ; so I said, 1 Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare,...hair.' And so he was quiet, and that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight; 10 That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack, Were... | |
 | Mother - 1872 - 366 pages
...soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shaved; so I said, " Hush, Tom ! never mind it, for...hair." And so he was quiet, and that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight ; That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack, Were all... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 772 pages
...soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved : so I said, Hush, Tom ! never mind it ; for...And so he was quiet ; and that very night, As Tom was a sleeping, he had such si^ht : That thousands of sweepers, Diek, Joe, Ned, and Jack, Were all... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 780 pages
...soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved : so I said, Hush, Tom ! never mind it; for when your bead's bare, You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair. And BO he was quiet ; and that very... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 216 pages
...dust I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved; so I said, " Hush, Tom ! Never mind it, for...hair." And so he was quiet, and that very night, As Tom was asleeping, he had such a sight; That thousands of sleepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack, Were all... | |
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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 
