I never had any one to cuddle me before . '' `` Do n't go away , '' said all the children ; `` you have not sung us one song . '' `` Well , I have time for only one . So what shall it be ? '' `` The doll you lost ! The doll you lost ! '' cried all the babies at once . So the strange fairy sang : - I once had a sweet little doll , dears , The prettiest doll in the world ; Her cheeks were so red and so white , dears , And her hair was so charmingly curled . But I lost my poor little doll , dears , As I played in the heath one day ; And I cried for her more than a week , dears , But I never could find where she lay . I found my poor little doll , dears , As I played in the heath one day : Folks say she is terribly changed , dears , For her paint is all washed away , And her arm trodden off by the cows , dears , And her hair not the least bit curled : Yet , for old sakes ' sake she is still , dears , The prettiest doll in the world . What a silly song for a fairy to sing ! And what silly water-babies to be quite delighted at it ! Well , but you see they have not the advantage of Aunt Agitate 's Arguments in the sea-land down below . `` Now , '' said the fairy to Tom , `` will you be a good boy for my sake , and torment no more sea-beasts till I come back ? '' `` And you will cuddle me again ? '' said poor little Tom . `` Of course I will , you little duck . I should like to take you with me and cuddle you all the way , only I must not ; '' and away she went . So Tom really tried to be a good boy , and tormented no sea-beasts after that as long as he lived ; and he is quite alive , I assure you , still . Oh , how good little boys ought to be who have kind pussy mammas to cuddle them and tell them stories ; and how afraid they ought to be of growing naughty , and bringing tears into their mammas ' pretty eyes !
CHAPTER VI `` Thou little child , yet glorious in the night Of heaven-born freedom on thy Being 's height , Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The Years to bring the inevitable yoke - Thus blindly XXXXX thy blessedness at strife ?
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