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SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 41 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: A POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF TO HEM
Last Line: AND AFTER WORK IS PLAY!
Subject(s): SEWING; TIME;
A POCKET handkerchief to hem --
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!
How many stitches it will take
Before it's done, I fear.

Yet set a stitch and then a stitch,
And stitch and stitch away,
Till stitch by stitch the hem is done --
And after work is play!



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