"Hurt no living thing: Ladybird nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing, Nor cricket cheering cheerily, Nor grasshopper so light of leap, Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat, Nor harmless worms that creep."
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Christina Rossetti, Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1915), p. 105
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Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 β December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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