 | William Blake - 2007 - 392 pages
...sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 'weep, 'weep, 'weep, 'weep. So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I 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 head's bare,... | |
 | 1923 - 160 pages
...very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry "weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I 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 head's... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1874 - 398 pages
...scarcely cry, " Weep, weep ! Weep, weep ! " So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There 's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved. So 1 said : " Hush, Tom ! never mind it, for when your head 's bare, You know that the soot cannot spoil... | |
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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 
