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...Mother-Song. 117 Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things...learn by such, Love's holy earnest in a pretty play. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. ROCK ME TO SLEEP. BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time in your flight, Make...

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...forth to meet her own." MOTTOES AND COMMENTARIES. " * * Stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words,— Which...are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles." Elizabeth Barrett Browning. "* * The plays of infancy, — a round in that ladder of experience over...

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