Living
Trottery, Trottery
From Rhymes and Jingles (1875)
Living
Trottery, trottery, out of breath,
Nurse trots the baby 'most to death:
Sick or well, or cold or hot,
It's trottery, trottery, trottery-trot!
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MLA
Dodge, Mary Mapes. “Trottery, Trottery.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/131/.
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Dodge, Mary Mapes. “Trottery, Trottery.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/131/.
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