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To Auntie
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885
Catalog grade guidance: K–5 — Short children’s lyric; good for early memorization and reading aloud.
6 content lines · 29 words · Est. recitation about 19 sec (approx.)
Public-domain text for reading and recitation practice. Source: Project Gutenberg #136.Estimated time uses ~120 words/minute plus short pauses—not a contest rule.
To Auntie
"Chief of our aunts"--not only I,
But all your dozen of nurselings cry--
"What did the other children do?
And what were childhood, wanting you?"
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