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The Eclectic Review - Page 77
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William Blake, Poet and Mystic

Pierre Berger - 1914 - 444 pages
...Sorrow. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shav'd : so I said " Hush, Tom ! never mind it, for when your...hair." And so he was quiet, and that very night, As Tom was a sleeping, he had such a sight ! — That thousands of sleepers, Dick, Joe, Ned and Jack, Were...
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The poetical works of William Blake

William Blake - 1914 - 554 pages
...curl'd like a lamb's back, was shav'd : so I said * Hush, Tom ! never mind it, for when your head 's bare You know that the soot cannot spoil your white...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,...
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The Children's Great Texts of the Bible, Volume 3

James Hastings - 1920 - 344 pages
...I said, " Hush, Tom 1 never mind it, for, when your head's bare, Ton know that the soot cannot soil your white 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...
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A Book of English Verse on Infancy and Childhood

Leonard Southerden Wood - 1921 - 396 pages
...sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shav'd : so I said, ' Hush, Tom ! never mind it, for when your...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...
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English Childhood: Wordsworth's Treatment of Childhood in the ..., Volume 37

Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 424 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 1 — That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack, Were...
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English Childhood: Wordsworth's Treatment of Childhood in the Light of ...

Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 420 pages
...Dacre, who cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved : so I said "Hush, Tom I never mind it, for when your head's bare You know...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...
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English Childhood: Wordsworth's Treatment of Childhood in the ..., Volume 37

Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 426 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...head's bare You know that the soot cannot spoil your whke hair." And so he was quiet, and that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight! —...
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Pure Poetry: An Anthology

George Moore - 1924 - 152 pages
...Could scarcely cry, "Weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. G 73 bare You know that the soot cannot spoil your white...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...
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Broomsticks, and Other Tales

Walter De la Mare - 1925 - 358 pages
.... . . There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head That curled like a lamb's back was shav'd; so I said "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your...hair.' And so he was quiet, and that very night As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight! That thousands of sleepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack Were all...
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Broomsticks, and Other Tales

Walter De la Mare - 1925 - 362 pages
.... . . There's little Tom Dacrc, who cried when his head That curled like a lamb's back was shav'd; so I said 'Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your...hair.' And so he was quiet, and that very night As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight! That thousands of sleepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack Were all...
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