Excerpt from The Lost Child: A Ballad of English Life, for Mothers and FathersWhere, in the spring, the mossy ground, Was gay with every early ¿ower, And there, a little child would stray, And play amongst them hour by hour.And oh! She was a bonny thing, As parents' love might ever see And she made all the earthly joy Of Margaret and Thomas Lee.The father went forth to his toil, She watched him from the lilac trees, And her good-bye would follow him, Like music on the morning breeze.She swung upon the garden gate, And sang her little songs with glee, And never bird in bush or bower Sang half so sweet as Annie Lee.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.