The Children in the Wood from More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

[illus. by Jessie Willcox Smith]

Now ponder well, you parents dear,
These words which I shall write;
A doleful story you shall hear,
In time brought forth to light.
A gentleman of good account,
In Norfolk dwelt of late,
Who did in honour far surmount
Most men of his estate.
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