TWO PAGES FROM “THE INFANT’S GRAMMAR”
THE VERBS.
Some Actors of eminence made their appearance,
And the servants, Nouns common, with speed made a clearance
Of tables, chairs, stools, and such moveable things,
As, wherever it goes, the Noun always brings.
And these actors the Verbs, when they’d room to DISPLAY,
Both WRESTLED and TUMBLED; and GAMBOL’D away;
They PLAY’D and they RAN, they JUMP’D and they DANC’D,