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“Little Boy Blue”

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  1. A nursery rhyme:

    Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,

    The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn;

    But where is the boy who looks after the sheep?

    He's under the haystack fast asleep.


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Power of understanding.—When she reads “Little Boy Blue” she can hear the sobbing of a heartbroken mother and thus, vicariously, comes to know the universality of death and sorrow.

From The Vitalized School by Pearson, Francis B.

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