 Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, 'Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for...  The modern elocutionist, compiled and ed. by J.A. Jennings - Page 348edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 pages
...their lives. From street to street he piped advancing And step for step they followed dancing, iro Until they came to the river Weser, Wherein all plunged and perished — Save one, who, stout as Julius Caesar, Swam across and lived to carry, (As he the manuscript he cherished) 125 To Rat-land home his... | |
 | 1871 - 314 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, 'Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...From street to street he piped advancing, And step for step they followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser Wherein all plunged and perished,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Children - 1871 - 292 pages
...rate, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails, and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...From street to street he piped, advancing, And step for step they followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser Wherein all plunged and perished,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...mothers, uncles, cousins, Cot-king tails and pricking whiskers ; Families by tens and dozens, bnitliere, phere, The pale which held that lovely deer : My joy,...hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A for step they followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser, Wherein all plunged and perished... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking for step they followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser, Wherein all plunged and perished... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 200 pages
...rats, tawny rats ; Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...From street to street he piped advancing, And step for step they followed dancing. Until they came to the River Weser, Wherein all plunged and perished,... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - Elocution - 1872 - 460 pages
...gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gray young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousius, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands,...From street to street he piped advancing, And step for step they followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser 'Wherein all plunged and perished.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Animals - 1872 - 296 pages
...wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.. From street to street he piped, advancing, And step for step they followed dancing, Until they came to the...Wherein all plunged and perished, Save one, who stout UK Julins Caesar, Swam across, and lived to carry (As he the manuscript he cherished) To Rat-land home... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Art - 1872 - 608 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Crave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...husbands, wives, Followed the piper for their lives." He leads them to the river, when all are drowned except one, who describes the effect of the piping:... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers - 1872 - 432 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, guy young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Pointing tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives. 4. And there was mounting in hot haste, 5. Pull, pull in your lassoes, and bridle to steed, And speed,... | |
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