by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Playing at bob cherry
Language: English
Playing at bob cherry Tom and Nell and Hugh: Cherry bob! cherry bob! There's a bob for you. Tom bobs a cherry For gaping snapping Hugh, While curly-pated Nelly Snaps at it too. Look, look, look -- Oh what a sight to see! The wind is playing cherry bob With the cherry tree.
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Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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Line count: 12
Word count: 52