OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book

An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.

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Other Spellers                              193
H OW proud we are ! how fond to fhew Our clothes, and call them rich and new ! When the poor fheep and filkworm wore That very clothing long before.
The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I:
Let me be dreft fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me ftill.
Then will I fet my heart to find Inward adornings of the mind; Knowledge and virtue, truth and grace, Thefe are the robes of richeft drefs.
No more fhall worms with me compare; This is the raiment Angels wear; It takes no fpot, but ftill refines; The more 'tis worn the more it fhines. o
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