Excerpt from Mother Goose for Grown Folks: A Christmas Reading Wisdom Of babes, the nursery Shak speare still, Cackles she ever with the same good-will Uttering deep counsels in a foolish guise, That come as warnings, even to the wise; As when, of old, the martial city slept, Unconscious. Of the wily foe that crept Under the midnight, till the alarm was heard Out from the mouth of Rome's plebeian bird. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.