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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Eugene Field. (1850–1895) (continued)
 
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    Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
  Sailed off in a wooden shoe—
Sailed on a river of crystal light
  Into a sea of dew.
          Wynken, Blynken and Nod.
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    The fire upon the hearth is low,
  And there is stillness everywhere,
  And, like winged spirits, here and there
The firelight shadows fluttering go.
          In the Firelight.
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    The little toy-dog is covered with dust
  But sturdy and stanch he stands;
And the little toy-soldier is red with rust
  And his musket moulds in his hands;
Time was when the little toy-dog was new,
  And the soldier was passing fair;
And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue
  Kissed them and put them there.
          Little Boy Blue.
 
Theophile Marzials. (1850– ?)
 
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    And also there’s a little star
  So white a virgin’s it must be:—
Perhaps the lamp my love in heaven
  Hangs out to light the way for me.
          Song.
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    “Ahoy! and Oho, and it’s who’s for the ferry?”
  (The brier’s in bud and the sun going down:)
“And I’ll row ye so quick and I’ll row ye so steady,
  And ’t is but a penny to Twickenham Town.
          Twickenham Ferry.
 
Rose Hartwick Thorpe. (1850– ?)
 
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    England’s sun was slowly setting o’er the hill-tops far away,
Filling all the land with beauty at the close of one sad day;