THE
DUCKS
AND
THE
FROGS
BY
FANNY FIRE-FLY
BOSTON
JOSEPH.H.FRANCIS
MDCCCXLIX.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by Alonzo
Hartwell, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts.
White & Potter, Printers,
J. W. Wilcox, Electrotyper
A. HARTWELL,
WOOD ENGRAVER.
Littleton, Mass.
THE DUCKS AND THE FROGS
chanced upon a certain day,
When cheerful Summer, bright and gay,
Had brought once more her gift of flowers,
To dress anew her pleasant bowers;
When birds and insects on the wing
[Pg 8]Made all the air with music ring;
When sunshine smiled on dell and knoll,
Two Ducks set forth to take a stroll.
'Twas morning; and each grassy bank
Of cooling dew had deeply drank—
Each fair young flower was holding up
Its sweet and freshly painted cup,
Filled with bright dew drops, every one;
Gay, sparkling treasures for the sun,
Who bears them lightly to the sky,
Holds them as vapor far on high,
Till with his rays in dazzling tints,
The rainbow on the cloud he paints.
But our two Ducks we'll not forget,
They were not troubled by the wet;
They rambled on, and soon they took
The path that led them to a brook,
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