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2 you I Mary began to sing at the same time of life our song was stimulated by the same causes objects viz, a shade or,
so of imagination and lakes, birds thunder clouds rabbits Joanna began young, an seeing the hillside by the house covered
with yellow solid illegible os she broke forth, The flowers are very beaut- iful and very yellow too etc Marg' Sarah David
began at the pairing season like thrushes and canary birds and ceased at the usual time Anna will likely whistle about the
same time As for easy mind- ed Dan I believe if he were int illegible aled concerning the matter he would say with Robie Burns
I rhyme for fun. Mother made poetry when first acquainted with father 3 and I think that father must have made verses
too for he must have been musical when he made the fiddle and imaginative when he made carts horses out of turnips The end
But now a short critique on All alone In 6th verse stanza is a g illegible error, You say the stars sheds a illegible in the
plural with irregular verb - In next stanza is the same error illegible of thunder tells the same error occurs again in illegible
last stan' The mists have enrobed or the frozen dew has enrobed. The 'sunset is a better piece but has a good many obscure
and inelegant passages