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First Line: The peach tree on the southern wall
Last Line: For grandmamma with her tea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches


THE peach tree on the southern wall
Has basked so long beneath the sun,
Her score of peaches great and small
Bloom rosy, every one.

A peach for brothers, one for each,
A peach for you and a peach for me;
But the biggest, rosiest, downiest peach
For Grandmamma with her tea.





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