Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WORM, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846)


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First Line: As sally sat upon the ground
Last Line: To frighten her away.
Subject(s): Girls; Worms


AS Sally sat upon the ground,
A little crawling worm she found
Among the garden dirt;
And when she saw the worm she scream'd,
And ran away and cried, and seem'd
As if she had been hurt.

Mamma, afraid some serious harm
Made Sally scream, was in alarm,
And left the parlour then;
But when the cause she came to learn,
She bade her daughter back return,
To see the worm again.

The worm they found kept writhing round,
Until it sank beneath the ground;
And Sally learned that day,
That worms are very harmless things,
With neither teeth, nor claws, nor stings
To frighten her away.





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