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SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 97 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: HURT NO LIVING THING
Last Line: NOR HARMLESS WORMS THAT CREEP.
Subject(s): ANIMAL RIGHTS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL ABUSE; VIVISECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ECOLOGY; CONSERVATION;

Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, no butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing.
No cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap,
Nor dancing gnat, no beetle fat,
Nor harmless worms that creep.



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