Versos English William Allingham Amy Margaret's Five Year Old

English poem

Amy Margaret's Five Year Old

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AMY MARGARET'S five years old, Amy Margaret's hair is gold, Dearer twenty-thousand-fold Than gold, is Amy Margaret. "Amy" is friend, is "Margaret" The pearl for crown or carkanet? Or peeping daisy, Summer's pet? Which are you, Amy Margaret? A friend, a daisy, and a pearl; A kindly, simple, precious girl,— Such, howsoe'er the world may twirl, Be ever,—Amy Margaret!