Mom started to sing, but no one joined in, and she sang only one verse.
, Inside the cover her name was written, and beneath it this verse: ,:—— Little deeds of kindness, , Little words of love, , Make this earth an Eden Like the heaven above.
Mama just has to name the chapter and verse, and the parrot recites it.
Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
When it was Xiangyun's turn to compose a verse amid a drinking game, she made fun of the service maids by saying, holding a duck head in hand, "This ya tou (referring to the duck head in hand) is not that ya tou (referring to the service maids around, as both are homophones in Chinese), for this ya tou has applied no hair oil….
Mama just has to name the chapter and verse and the parrot recites it.
it was a perfect feast, and each one got an apple besides, and the smallest child said the little verse: "Thou good God, I give thanks to Thee That Thou again bast nourished me.