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CONTENTS

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I.The First Tooth[11]
II.The Boy and the Skylark—A Fable[14]
III.The Rainbow[18]
IV.Queen Oriana’s Dream[21]
V.The Sister’s Expostulation on the Brother’s learning Latin[23]
VI.The Brother’s Reply[26]
VII.On the Lord’s Prayer[29]
VIII.David in the Cave of Adullam[34]
IX.Cleanliness[36]
X.To a River in which a Child was drowned[39]
XI.The Boy and Snake[40]
XII.The Beasts in the Tower[43]
XIII.Time spent in Dress[47]
XIV.A Ballad: noting the difference of Rich and Poor, in the Ways of a Rich Noble’s Palace and a Poor Workhouse[50]
XV.The Broken Doll[55]
XVI.Going into Breeches[57]
XVII.The Three Friends[61]
XVIII.Memory[72]
XIX.Salome[74]
XX.The Peach[78]
XXI.The Magpie’s Nest[81]
XXII.Nursing[87]
XXIII.The Rook and the Sparrows[88]
XXIV.Feigned Courage[91]
XXV.Hester[94]
XXVI.Helen[97]
XXVII.The Beggar Man[100]
XXVIII.Breakfast[104]
XXIX.The Coffee Slips[107]
XXX.Written in the First Leaf of a Child’s Memorandum Book[110]
XXXI.Envy[112]
XXXII.Dialogue between Mother and Child[114]
XXXIII.The First Sight of Green Fields[116]
XXXIV.Lines suggested by a Picture of two Females by Leonardo da Vinci[119]
XXXV.Lines on the same Picture being removed to make place for a Portrait of a Lady by Titian[121]
XXXVI.Lines on the celebrated Picture by Leonardo da Vinci, called The Virgin of the Rocks[122]
XXXVII.On the same[123]
XXXVIII.A Vision of Repentance[124]

THE
FIRST TOOTH

I

SISTER

Through the house what busy joy

Just because the infant boy