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OUR HILL by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY

First Line: TEDDY AND JOCK AND I PLAY ON A HILL ALL DAY
Last Line: BUT IT WOULDN'T BE SAFE FOR YOU!
Subject(s): CHILDREN; CLIMBING; DANGER; MOUNTAINS; CHILDHOOD; HILLS; DOWNS (GREAT BRITAIN);

TEDDY and Jock and I play on a hill all day.
Its top goes up to the sky
And Teddy and Jock and I
Are sometime going to climb so high
We'll hear what the star-folk say!

Just us can play on the hill—nobody else would dare!—
Its feet slip into a lake,
And some fine day we'll take
Our luncheon of apples and Johnny-cake
And see what it's like down there.

There's a cave in the hill up there, so black it looks like blue!
It hasn't ever an end—
But some day we intend
To go right in and around the bend—
@3But it wouldn't be safe for you!@1



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