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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THREAD AND SONG, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER
First Line: Sweeter and sweeter
Last Line: Would that the name were mine!
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Sweeter and sweeter
Last Line: Would that the name were mine!
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
SWEETER and sweeter,
Soft and low,
Neat little nymph,
Thy numbers flow,
Urging thy thimble,
Thrift's tidy symbol
Busy and nimble,
To and fro;
Prettily plying
Thread and song,
Keeping them flying
Late and long,
Through the stitch linger,
Kissing thy finger,
Quick, -- as it skips along.
Many an echo,
Soft and low,
Follows thy flying
Fancy so, --
Melodies thrilling,
Tenderly filling
Thee with their trilling,
Come and go;
Memory's finger,
Quick as thine,
Loving to linger
On the line,
Writes of another,
Dearer than brother:
Would that the name were mine!
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