lightsome

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In one, “Butterflies Are Lightsome Things,” heartless butterflies flutter freely as kangaroos are weighed down by the worries and concerns collected in their pouches.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

Could you but stay a while, And my fond fears beguile, I yet once more could smile, Lightsome and cheery.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Life is a strange avenue of various trees and flowers; Lightsome at commencement, but darkening to its end in a distant, massy portal.

From Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North Showing that slavery's shadows fall even there by Wilson, Harriet E.

How I miss the footsteps,    Lightsome, loud, or slow; Telling by their echo    How the humours go.

From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Curzon, Sarah Anne

It much quickens the Spirits, and makes the Heart Lightsome.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)