Poetry for Children
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EiNTLE READER early odours the boy-patron of boys the serious and holy child who walked with Cranmer and Ridley? A las, London is no longer to be the home of these boys, and the cloisters of the Old Grey Friars will soon moulder away, when the merry noise of sports and revels cease to awaken them to life. As I looked through the bars the other day watching the boys at their games, a strange fancy ...
MoreEiNTLE READER early odours the boy-patron of boys the serious and holy child who walked with Cranmer and Ridley? A las, London is no longer to be the home of these boys, and the cloisters of the Old Grey Friars will soon moulder away, when the merry noise of sports and revels cease to awaken them to life. As I looked through the bars the other day watching the boys at their games, a strange fancy came to me. I thoiight I saw a pale and studious Grecian (as they call the head boys of the school, and walking at his side, with glittering eyes full of wonderment, was a younger lad a boy with crisply curling black hair, and with ruddy brown complexion, and in his look so much lovableness and trustfulness that If lt myself envying the elder lad, whose hand rested so affectionately on the shoulder of his friend. I drew near to listen to their talk. The thoughtful Grecian was discoursing learnedly yet so sweetly about some deep matter of philosophy :it seemed somewhat beyond the younger boy, but he listened quietly, rapt in admiration. Suddenly the school-bell sounded.
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