 | 1927 - 458 pages
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 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...foeman is here — I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets beside thee. Ladybird ! ladybird ! fly away home ; Your house is on fire ! your children will roam ! List, list to their cry and bewailing ! The pitiless spider is weaving their doom ! Then,... | |
 | 1840 - 356 pages
...dewy ground, And their little voices chiming rung, While these were the words the young group sung. "Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home! Your house is on fire, your children will roam." They thought, to be sure, the dainty thing Would flutter aloft its tiny wing, And fly to... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...trust, for he kenned it wa' just, That the king should enjoy his ain agen. JACOBITE SONG. LADYBIRD. LADYBIRD, ladybird, fly away home; Your house is on fire, your children will burn. ARUNDINE8 CAМI. Heu ! multam ad noctem surgente a sole laborans Paulatim extremara curarum... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1843 - 408 pages
...foeman is here— I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, These beautiful winglets beside thee. Lady-bird ! lady-bird ! fly away home ; Your house is on -fire ! your children will roam. List, list to their cry and bewailing! The pitiless spider is weaving their doom! Then lady-bird... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Counting-out rhymes - 1843 - 332 pages
...but one that ligs under a stone, Ply thee home, lady-cow, ere it be gone. CCCLXXV. [Another version.] Lady-bird ! Lady-bird ! Fly away home, Your house is on fire, Your children will burn. CCCLXXVI. SING jigmijole, the pudding-bowl, The table and the frame ; My master he did cudgel... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1844 - 1338 pages
...sitzt auf der schwelle; flieg in himmel aus der bölle l' alt sein, da auch in England gesangen wird: 'ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, your house is on fire , your children will burn !' Die kinder setzen auch bei uns Marienkäferchen oder einen sonnenkäfer auf den finger... | |
 | Robert Hasell Newell - Animals - 1845 - 216 pages
...notice, and insared its proteotion. Even with children it is a favoarite ; and that oft.repeated distich, Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children at home, has saved many a one from thcir dangerous little clotches.* Superstition and vulgar prejudice... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1845 - 662 pages
...* Such are " The Childe of Elle," " Catharine and Janfarie," " Cospatric," " Willie's Lady," &c. " Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will roam." This fragment of a respectable little poem has soothed the slumbers of the German infant... | |
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Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn. 
