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A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for childrenA book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children
A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for children by J.B.A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.
London: printed for N.P., 1686
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A BOOK FOR Boys and Girls, &c. › Poem 5: V Meditation upon Peep of day.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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I fancy that I see a little light;
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But cannot yet distinguish day from night.
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I hope, I doubt, but steady yet I be not,
I hope, I doubt, but steddy yet I be not,
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I am not at a point, the Sun I see not.
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Thus 'tis with such, who Grace but now possest,
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They know not yet, if they are curst or blest.