THE PATCHWORK QUILT
While I lay ill one winter-time, Over my blankets mother laid The lovely patchwork counterpane That\ my great-grandmamma once made. It’s- made of little different bits, All colours and shaped every way; Old chintz with tiny rosy sprigs, And lavender and silver grey, I lay and lay and looked at it, And touched the pretty little scraps, And wondered if great-grandmamma _ , Had guessed that T should use it, perhaps And then I fell asleep and dreamed, And soon I was quite well again; It is a kind of fairy quilt, I, think—great-grandma’s . countcr- ■ pane. ' .
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Evening Star, Issue 22026, 11 May 1935, Page 5
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97THE PATCHWORK QUILT Evening Star, Issue 22026, 11 May 1935, Page 5
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