Vintage Graphics

Two sweet, elderly, unmarried sisters passed recently and left a house full of belongings with no heirs. Their old scrapbooks were donated to the Library Genealogy Department. Here are some of the beautiful old clippings that fell out when we opened them.

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Nurse's Song

William Blake

When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.

‘Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down,
And the dews of night arise;
Come, come leave off play, and let us away
Till the morning appears in the skies.’

‘No, no, let us play, for it is yet day,
And we cannot go to sleep;
Besides, in the sky the little birds fly,
And the hills are all cover'd with sheep.’

‘Well, well, go and play till the light fades away,
And then go home to bed.’
The little ones leapèd, and shoutèd, and laugh'd
And all the hills echoèd.

~ENJOY~

Dorothy and Ms. Wilma

(Wilma said the doggy pics were her favorite)