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“Oh, what are you waiting for here, young man? What are you looking for over the bridge?” A little straw hat with streaming blue ribbons; —And here it comes dancing over the bridge!
“Oh, what are you waiting for here, young man? What are you looking for over the bridge?” A little straw hat with streaming blue ribbons; —And here it comes dancing over the bridge!
Approximate author period: c. 1724 AD · early modern
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- James Thomson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1724 AD · early modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 225 · printed citation: James Thomson (B.V.) (Sunday up the River). · compiler notes excluded
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