. Poetry for children . THE FIRST SIGHT OFGREEN FIELDS. XXXIII LATELY an equipage I overtook,And helpd to lift it oer a narrow brook;No horse it had, except one boy, who drewHis sister out in it the fields to view. 0 happy town-bred girl, in fine chaise going For the first time to see the green grass growing IThis was the end and purport of the ride, 1 learnd, as walking slowly by their sideI heard their conversation. Often she— Brother, is this the country that I see ? The bricks were smoking and the ground was broke,There were no signs of verdure when she , as the well-informd deligh

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. Poetry for children . THE FIRST SIGHT OFGREEN FIELDS. XXXIII LATELY an equipage I overtook,And helpd to lift it oer a narrow brook;No horse it had, except one boy, who drewHis sister out in it the fields to view. 0 happy town-bred girl, in fine chaise going For the first time to see the green grass growing IThis was the end and purport of the ride, 1 learnd, as walking slowly by their sideI heard their conversation. Often she— Brother, is this the country that I see ? The bricks were smoking and the ground was broke,There were no signs of verdure when she , as the well-informd delight in chidingThe ignorant, these questions still deriding,To his good judgment modestly she yields;Till, brick-kilns past, they reachd the open , as with rapturous wonder round she gazesOn the green grass, the buttercups and daisies,— nc

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