Identifier: childsdreamofsta00dick2 (find matches)
Title: A child's dream of a star
Year: 1871 (1870s)

W・J・リントン  (1812–1897)
	別名	Linton; Hattie Brown; A. N. Broome; Abel Reid; C. Honeysuckle; W. J. Linton; William Linton
	説明	英国の-米国の 彫刻師および画家
	生年月日・没年月日	1812年12月7日	1897年12月29日
	出生地・死没地	ロンドン	Hamden
	典拠管理	: Q2066530 VIAF: 10221769 ISNI: 0000000080897858 ULAN: 500015928 Open Library: OL998841A LCCN: n50050814 WorldCat

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Publisher: Boston, Fields, Osgood

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A CHILD S DREAM OF A STAR. the goodness and the power of God, whomade the lovely world. They used to say to one another, some-times. Supposing all the children uponearth were to die, would the flowers andthe water and the sky be sorry ? Theybelieved they would be sorry. For, saidthey, the buds are the children of theflowers, and the little playful streams thatgambol down the hillsides are the chil-dren of the water; and the smallest brightspecks playing at hide-and-seek in the skyall night must surely be the children ofthe stars; and they would all be grievedto see their playmates, the children ofmen, no more. There was one clear shining star thatused to come out in the sky before the iM^^^^^^
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A CHILD S DREAM OF A STAR. rest, near the church-spire, above thegraves. It was larger and more beauti-ful, they thought, than all the others, andevery night they watched for it, standinghand in hand at a window. Whoeversaw it first cried out, I see the star ! And often they cried out both together,knowing so well when it would rise andwhere. So they grew to be such friendswith it, that, before lying down in theirbeds, they always looked out once again,to bid it good night; and when theywere turning round to sleep, they used tosay, God bless the star ! But while she was still very young, O,very, very young, the sister drooped, andcame to be so weak that she could nolonger stand in the window at night; and 7

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