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FANCY'S HOME by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: TELL ME, FANCY, SWEETEST CHILD
Last Line: I HAVE NOURISHED EVER SINCE.
Subject(s): HOME;
Tell me, Fancy, sweetest child,
Of thy parents and thy birth;
Had they silk, and had they gold,
And a park to wander forth,
With a castle green and old?

In a cottage I was born,
My kind father was Content,
My dear mother Innocence;
On wild fruits of wonderment
I have nourished ever since.



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