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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Oh, that it...

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Oh, that it were my chief delight
To do the things I ought!
Then let me try with all my might
To mind what I am taught.

Source: For a Very Little Child, in Hymns for Infant Minds, 1810.
-- Ann (and Jane) Taylor, (Jun 30 1782-1866), English children's author, poet; She wrote, with sister Jane, Original Poems for Infant Minds, 1804.


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