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Title: Spring Blossoms

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: November 4, 2007 [EBook #23314]

Language: English

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[Illustration:

TURNER & FISHER'S LARGE AND SHOWY TOY BOOK.

SPRING
BLOSSOMS.

WITH
EIGHT COLOURED
PLATES.

TURNER & FISHER:
NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA.]

SPRING BLOSSOMS.

Here, for the infant minds, fair spring,
Blossoms of bright truth we bring,
Seeds of virtue there to sow,
Ere a single weed can grow.

Here may you learn how sweet the bliss,
To worship nature's loveliness,
Escaping through her flow'ry charm,
Each thought or wish to do a harm.

For when the tender buds of truth,
Expand within the minds of youth,
They cast a bloom around the heart
That will not but with life depart.

Then take these tender blossoms rare,
Preserve their sweets with gentle care,
And ev'ry day thro' life you'll find
New flowers blooming in your mind.

[Illustration: MAN FRIDAY.]

MAN FRIDAY.

This is Robinson Crusoe's man, whom he named Friday, because he fell
in with him on that day of the week. When Man Friday first saw
Robinson Crusoe, he offered to be his servant; he was accepted as
such, and Crusoe found him very useful, for having been born in that
desolate country where Crusoe had been cast away, he was well
acquainted with the forms and customs of the neighboring
inhabitants, as well as with all the secret caverns and other
mysterious places upon the islands.

He also relieved the solitude of poor Crusoe much; for man, even
though he choose the life of a Hermit, soon finds that the society
of his fellows is necessary to his happiness, and that the words of
the Almighty are as true now as in the beginning--"It is not good
for man to be alon