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Brown and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + + + + + Child Verse: Poems Grave and Gay + + + CHILD + VERSE + + + Poems Grave & Gay + by John. B. Tabb + + + Small, Maynard & Company. + Boston 1900 + + + _Copyright, 1899_ + _By Small, Maynard & Company_ + (_Incorporated._) + + _Entered at Stationers' Hall_ + + _First Edition (1250 copies) November, 1899_ + _Second Edition (1000 copies) December, 1899_ + + _The Rockwell and Churchill Press_ + _Boston, U.S.A._ + + + TO + MY LITTLE FRIEND + Henry Dinneen + WITH MY + LOVE AND BLESSING + + + + +NOTE + + +_Some of these verses have appeared in other places: one in St. +Nicholas, one in Harper's Young People; and the Sunday School Times, the +Youth's Companion, and the Independent have each published others. To +this class belong, I think, all I reprint from my Poems and Lyrics. Most +of the contents, however, is new._ + + J. B. T. + + + + +CONTENTS + + + PAGE + +Hare-bells 3 + +At Cock-Crow 4 + +A Duet 5 + +The Bobolink 6 + +The Bluebird 7 + +The Woodpecker 8 + +Chimney Stacks 9 + +Butterfly 10 + +The Honey Bee 11 + +The Bee and the Blossoms 12 + +The Tax-Gatherer 13 + +Jack-o'-Lantern 14 + +The Pleiads 15 + +Jack Frost's Apology 16 + +A Cavalcade 17 + +Silk 18 + +Seed-Time 19 + +A Legacy 20 + +Amid the Roses 21 + +Light and Shadow 22 + +Sleep 23 + +The Fire-Fly 24 + +The Dragon-Fly 25 + +Archery 26 + +A Spy 27 + +A Lament 28 + +Fern Song 29 + +The Brook 30 + +An Interview 31 + +Baby's Dimples 32 + +A Bunch of Roses 33 + +Foot-Soldiers 34 + +The Baby's Star 35 + +Slumber-Song 36 + +An Idolater 37 + +The New-Year Babe 38 + +Bicycles! Tricycles! 40 + +High and Low 41 + +Doctor Tumble-Bug 42 + +Close Quarters 43 + +The Time-Brood 44 + +Pains-Taking 45 + +A Rub 46 + +Cats 47 + +An Insectarian 48 + +The Squirrel 49 + +Hospitality 50 + +Frog Making 51 + +The Tree-Frog Pedigree 52 + +An Explanation 53 + +The Parlour and the Fly 54 + +No Go 55 + +A Mouse, A Cat, and an Irish Bull 56 + +The Same with a Difference 57 + +An Inconvenience 58 + +The Tryst 59 + +Etiquette 60 + +A Sunstroke 61 + +A Shuffle 62 + +Washington's Ruse 63 + +Panic 64 + +The End of It 65 + +A Little Child's Prayers 66 + +The Child: At Bethlehem 67 + + To His Mother 68 + +A Lily of the Field 69 + +The Lamb-Child 70 + +A Pair of Turtle-Doves 71 + +Hide-and-Seek 72 + +Out of Bounds 73 + +The Child on Calvary 74 + +The Child: At Nazareth 75 + +St. Theresa and the Child 77 + +Tradition 78 + + + + +CHILD VERSE + + + + +HARE-BELLS + + + Ring! The little Rabbits' eyes, + In the morning clear, + Moisten to the melodies + They alone can hear. + + Ring! The little Rabbits' feet, + Shod with racing rhyme, + If the breezes they would beat, + Must be beating time. + + Ring! When summer days are o'er, + And the snowfalls come, + Rabbits count the hours no more, + For the bells are dumb. + + + + +AT COCK-CROW + + + Crow! For the night has thrice denied + The glory of the Sun, + And now, repentant, turns aside + To weep what he has done. + + + + +A DUET + + + A little yellow Bird above, + A little yellow Flower below; + The little Bird can _sing_ the love + That Bird and Blossom know; + The Blossom has no song nor wing, + But _breathes_ the love he cannot sing. + + + + +THE BOBOLINK + + + Your notes are few, + But sweet your song + As honey-dew; + And all day long, + Dear Bobolink, a-listening, + I never tire to hear you sing. + + + + +THE BLUEBIRD + + + When God had made a host of them, + One little flower still lacked a stem + To hold its blossom blue; + So into it He breathed a song, + And suddenly, with petals strong + As wings, away it flew. + + + + +THE WOODPECKER + + + The wizard of the woods is he; + For in his daily round, + Where'er he finds a rotting tree, + He makes the timber sound. + + + + +CHIMNEY STACKS + + + In winter's cold and summer's heat + The hospitable chimneys greet + Their never-failing guests; + For when the sparks are upward gone, + The swallows downward come anon, + To build their neighboring nests. + + + + +BUTTERFLY + + + Butterfly, Butterfly, sipping the sand, + Have you forgotten the flowers of the land? + Or are you so sated with honey and dew + That sand-filtered water tastes better to you? + + + + +THE HONEY-BEE + + + O bee, good-by! + Your weapon's gone, + And you anon + Are doomed to die; + But Death to you can bring + No second sting. + + + + +THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS + + + "Why stand ye idle, blossoms bright, + The livelong summer day?" + "Alas! we labour all the night + For what thou takest away." + + + + +THE TAX-GATHERER + + + "And pray, who are you?" + Said the violet blue + To the Bee, with surprise + At his wonderful size, + In her eye-glass of dew. + + "I, madam," quoth he, + "Am a publican Bee, + Collecting the tax + On honey and wax. + Have you nothing for me?" + + + + +JACK-O'-LANTERN + + + "Jack-o'-Lantern, Jack-o'-Lantern, + Tell me where you hide by day?" + "In the cradle where the vapours + Dream the sunlit hours away." + + "Jack-o'-Lantern, Jack-o'-Lantern, + Who rekindles you at night?" + "Any firefly in the meadow + Lends a Jack-o'-Lantern light." + + + + +THE PLEIADS + + + "Who are ye with clustered light, + Little Sisters seven?" + "Crickets, chirping all the night + On the hearth of heaven." + + + + +JACK FROST'S APOLOGY + + + To strip you of your foliage + My spirit sorely grieves; + Nor will I in the work engage + Unless you grant your leaves. + + + + +A CAVALCADE + + + "Thistle-down, Thistle-down, whither away? + Will you not longer abide?" + "Nay, we have wedded the winds to-day, + And home with the rovers we ride." + + + + +SILK + + + 'Twas the shroud of many a worm-like thing + That rose from its tangled skein; + 'Twas the garb of many a god-like king + Who went to the worms again. + + + + +SEED-TIME + + + When Trumpet-flowers begin to blow + The Thistle-downs take heed, + For then they know 'tis time to go + And plant the wingèd seed. + + + + +A LEGACY + + + Do you remember, little cloud, + This morning when you lay-- + A mist along the river--what + The waters had to say? + + And how the many-coloured flowers + That on the margin grew, + All promised when the day was done + To leave their tints to you? + + + + +AMID THE ROSES + + + There was laughter 'mid the Roses, + For it was their natal day; + And the children in the garden were + As light of heart as they. + + There were sighs amid the Roses, + For the night was coming on; + And the children--weary now of play-- + Were ready to be gone. + + There are tears amid the Roses, + For the children are asleep; + And the silence of the garden makes + The lonely blossoms weep. + + + + +LIGHT AND SHADOW + + + "I love you, little maid," + Said the Sunbeam to the Shade, + As all day long she shrank away before him; + But at twilight, ere he died, + She was weeping at his side; + And he felt her tresses softly trailing o'er him. + + + + +SLEEP + + + When he is a little chap, + We call him _Nap_. + When he somewhat older grows, + We call him _Doze_. + When his age by hours we number, + We call him _Slumber_. + + + + +THE FIRE-FLY + + + "Are you flying through the night + Looking where to find me?" + "Nay; I travel with a light + For the folks _behind_ me." + + + + +THE DRAGON-FLY + + + "Is skimming o'er a stagnant pool + Your only occupation?" + "Ah, no: 'tis at this Summer School + I get my education." + + + + +ARCHERY + + + A bow across the sky + Another in the river, + Whence swallows upward fly, + Like arrows from a quiver. + + + + +A SPY + + + Sighed the languid Moon to the Morning Star: + "O little maid, how late you are!" + "I couldn't rise from my couch," quoth she, + "While the Man-in-the-Moon was looking at me." + + + + +A LAMENT + + + "O lady cloud, why are you weeping?" I said. + "Because," she made answer, "my rain-beau is dead." + + + + +FERN SONG + + + Dance to the beat of the rain, little Fern, + And spread out your palms again, + And say, "Tho' the sun + Hath my vesture spun, + He had laboured, alas, in vain, + But for the shade + That the Cloud hath made, + And the gift of the Dew and the Rain." + Then laugh and upturn + All your fronds, little Fern, + And rejoice in the beat of the rain! + + + + +THE BROOK + + + It is the mountain to the sea + That makes a messenger of me; + And, lest I loiter on the way + And lose what I am sent to say, + He sets his reverie to song, + And bids me sing it all day long. + Farewell! for here the stream is slow, + And I have many a mile to go. + + + + +AN INTERVIEW + + + I sat with chill December + Beside the evening fire. + "And what do you remember," + I ventured to inquire, + "Of seasons long forsaken?" + He answered in amaze, + "My age you have mistaken; + I've lived but thirty _days_." + + + + +BABY'S DIMPLES + + + Love goes playing hide-and-seek + 'Mid the roses on her cheek, + With a little imp of Laughter, + Who, the while he follows after, + Leaves the footprints that we trace + All about the Kissing-place. + + + + +A BUNCH OF ROSES + + + The rosy mouth and rosy toe + Of little baby brother + Until about a month ago + Had never met each other; + But nowadays the neighbours sweet, + In every sort of weather, + Half way with rosy fingers meet, + To kiss and play together. + + + + +FOOT-SOLDIERS + + + 'Tis all the way to Toe-town, + Beyond the Knee-high hill, + That Baby has to travel down + To see the soldiers drill. + + One, two, three, four, five, a-row-- + A captain and his men-- + And on the other side, you know, + Are six, seven, eight, nine, ten. + + + + +THE BABY'S STAR + + + The Star that watched you in your sleep + Has just put out his light. + "Good-day, to you on earth," he said, + "Is here in heaven Good-night. + + "But tell the Baby when he wakes + To watch for my return; + For I'll hang out my lamp again + When his begins to burn." + + + + +SLUMBER-SONG + + + Lo, in the west + A cloud at rest-- + A babe upon its mother's breast-- + Is sleeping now. + + Above it beams + A star that seems + To shed the light of holy dreams + Upon its brow. + + But cloud and star, + Tho' nearer far + They seem, my Babe, more distant are + From heaven than thou. + + + + +AN IDOLATER + + + The Baby has no skies + But Mother's eyes, + Nor any God above + But Mother's Love. + His angel sees the Father's face, + But _he_ the Mother's, full of grace; + And yet the heavenly kingdom is + Of such as this. + + + + +THE NEW-YEAR BABE + + + Two together, Babe and Year, + At the midnight chime, + Through the darkness drifted here + To the coast of Time. + + Two together, Babe and Year, + Over night and day, + Crossed the desert Winter drear + To the land of May. + + On together, Babe and Year + Swift to Summer passed. + "Rest a moment, Brother dear," + Said the Babe at last. + + "Nay, but onward," answered Year, + "We must farther go, + Through the Vale of Autumn sere + To the Mount of Snow." + + Toiling upward, Babe and Year + Climbed the frozen height. + "We may rest together here, + Brother Babe,--Good-night!" + + Then together Babe and Year + Slept; but ere the dawn, + Vanishing, I know not where, + Brother Year was _gone_! + + + + +BICYCLES! TRICYCLES! + + + Bicycles! Tricycles! Nay, to shun laughter, + _Try_ cycles first, and _buy_ cycles after; + For surely the buyer deserves but the worst + Who would buy cycles, failing to try cycles first. + + + + +HIGH AND LOW + + + A Boot and a Shoe and a Slipper + Lived once in the Cobbler's row: + But the Boot and the Shoe + Would have nothing to do + With the Slipper, because she was low. + + But the king and the queen and their daughter + On the Cobbler chanced to call; + And as neither the Boot + Nor the Shoe would suit + The Slipper went off to the ball. + + + + +DOCTOR TUMBLE-BUG + + + With wondrous skill + He works until, + To suit himself, he makes it + A patent Pill, + To cure or kill + The sufferer that takes it. + + + + +CLOSE QUARTERS + + + Little toe, big toe, three toes between, + All in a pointed shoe! + Never was narrower forecastle seen + Nor so little room for the crew. + + + + +THE TIME-BROOD + + + I wonder how the mother-Hour + Can feed each hungry Minute, + And see that every one of them + Gets sixty seconds in it; + + And whether, when she goes abroad, + She knows which ones attend her; + For all of them are just alike + In age and size and gender. + + + + +PAINS-TAKING + + + "Take pains," growled the Tooth to the Dentist; + "The same," said the Dentist, "to you." + Then he added, "No doubt, + Before you are out + You'll have taken most pains of the two." + + + + +A RUB + + + 'Twixt Handkerchief and Nose + A difference arose; + And a tradition goes + That they settled it by blows. + + + + +CATS + + + They fought like demons of the night + Beneath a shrunken moon, + And all the roof at dawn of light + With _fiddle-strings_ was strewn. + + + + +AN INSECTARIAN + + + "I cannot wash my dog," she said, + "Nor touch him with a comb, + For fear the Fleas upon him bred + May find no other home." + + + + +THE SQUIRREL + + + Who combs you, little Squirrel? + And do you twist and twirl + When some one puts the papers on + To keep your tail in curl? + + And must you see the dentist + For every tooth you break? + And are you apt from eating nuts + To get the stomach-ache? + + + + +HOSPITALITY + + + Said a Snake to a Frog with a wrinkled skin, + "As I notice, dear, that your dress is thin, + And a _rain_ is coming, I'll take you in." + + + + +FROG-MAKING + + + Said Frog papa to Frog mamma, + "Where is our little daughter?" + Said Frog mamma to Frog papa, + "She's underneath the water." + + Then down the anxious father went, + And there, indeed, he found her, + A-tickling tadpoles, till they kicked + Their tails off all around her. + + + + +THE TREE-FROG PEDIGREE + + + Our great ancestor, Polly Wog, + With her cousin, Thaddeus Pole, + Eloped from her home in an Irish bog, + And crossing the sea on the "Mayflower's" log, + At the risk of body and soul, + Married a Frog; and thus, you see, + How we come by a place in the family-tree + And the family name, Tree-frog. + + + + +AN EXPLANATION + + + To the young lady Toad said her mother, + "How had you the boldness, my dear, + To propose to Miss Polliwog's brother?" + "Why, mamma," she replied, "'tis leap year!" + + + + +THE PARLOUR AND THE FLY + + + "Will you walk into the Spider?" + Said the Parlour to the Fly; + "He's the emptiest little spider + That ever you did spy. + + "And he covers me with cobweb; + So I want you to go in; + For--his lower chamber furnished-- + He will have no room to spin." + + + + +NO GO + + + Said a simpering Butterfly, sipping a rose, + To a graceless Mosquito on grandpapa's nose, + Whom she hoped to entrap, + "Pray come, Sir, and taste of this delicate stuff." + "Thanks, Madam, I'm just now taking my snuff," + Quoth the impudent chap. + + + + +A MOUSE, A CAT, AND AN IRISH BULL + + + A little mouse nibbled a Limburger cheese, + And back to his bedchamber stole, + Whence never again was he destined to squeeze, + For the smell was too large for the hole. + + And a Pussy Cat, passing, instinctively stood; + For her appetite urged her to try it; + But she answered her stomach that grumbled for food, + "I should die if I lived on such diet." + + + + +THE SAME WITH A DIFFERENCE + + + When first they wed he was a sing-er, + And much delight his songs did bring her; + But nowadays he proves a sin-ger, + And makes it hot for her as ginger. + + + + +AN INCONVENIENCE + + + To his cousin the Bat + Squeaked the envious Rat, + "How fine to be able to fly!" + Tittered she, "Leather wings + Are convenient things; + But nothing _to sit on_ have I." + + + + +THE TRYST + + + Potato was deep in the dark under ground, + Tomato, above in the light. + The little Tomato was ruddy and round, + The little Potato was white. + + And redder and redder she rounded above, + And paler and paler he grew, + And neither suspected a mutual love + Till they met in a Brunswick stew. + + + + +ETIQUETTE + + + "I long," said the new-gathered Lettuce, + "To meet our illustrious guest." + Cried the Caster, "Such haste + Is in very bad taste: + See first that you're properly _dressed_." + + + + +A SUNSTROKE + + + The Sun courted Water, + Earth's loveliest daughter, + And strove to abduct her in vain: + For, when he had caught her, + And to the clouds brought her, + Home she came running in rain. + + + + +A SHUFFLE + + + There was a rumpus in the Pack, + Whereof the King and Queen and Jack + Were playing knavish parts. + On Club and Spade was put the blame; + But these asserted 'twas a game + Of Diamonds and Hearts. + + + + +WASHINGTON'S RUSE + + + When Georgie would not go to bed, + If some one asked him why, + "What is the use?" he gravely said, + "You know I cannot lie." + + + + +PANIC + + + It struck the signs of the Zodiac, + Around the immovable Man + Who stands in front of the Almanack + To show his interior plan. + + The Scorpion attacked the Bull, + The Bull aroused the Lion; + The Crab by their tails + Flung the Fish in the Scales, + Where they floundered as on a gridiron; + The Billy Goat went for the Gemini twins; + The Ram made a rush at Aquarius; + And a n_arrow_ escape had the Virgo's shins + From the shaft of her beau Sagittarius. + + + + +THE END OF IT + + + A whole-tail dog, and a half-tail dog, + And a dog without a tail, + Went all three out on an autumn day + To follow a red-fox trail. + + But the dogs that carried their tails along + Fell out, it is said, by the way; + And the loss of a tail and a half at the end + Of the dogs put an end to the fray. + + When each, as a morsel sweet, gulped down + What had late been a neighbor's pride, + "You've kept your tails," laughed the no-tail dog, + "But you wear them now _inside_." + + + + +A LITTLE CHILD'S PRAYERS + + + I + + Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind + To every one, I pray; + And may I ask you how you find + _Yourself_, dear Lord, to-day? + + + II + + Lord, I have lost a toy + With which I love to play; + And as you were yourself a boy + Of just my age to-day, + O Son of Mary, would you mind + To help me now my toy to find? + + + + +THE CHILD + + AT BETHLEHEM + + + I + + Long, long before the Babe could speak, + When he would kiss his mother's cheek + And to her bosom press, + The brightest angels, standing near, + Would turn away to hide a tear, + For they are motherless. + + + II + + Where were ye, Birds, that bless His name, + When wingless to the world He came, + And _wordless_,--tho' Himself the Word + That made the blossom and the bird? + + + III + + TO HIS MOTHER + + He brought a Lily white, + That bowed its fragrant head + And blushed a rosy red + Before her fairer light. + + He brought a Rose; and lo, + The crimson blossom saw + Her beauty; and in awe + Became as white as snow. + + + + +A LILY OF THE FIELD + + + In all his glory, Solomon + Was never so arrayed; + Yet far more beautiful is one-- + A MOTHER and a MAID-- + Whose loveliness and lowliness + God stooped from highest heaven to bless. + + + + +THE LAMB-CHILD + + + When Christ the Babe was born, + Full many a little lamb, + Upon the wintry hills forlorn, + Was nestled near its dam; + + And, waking or asleep, + Upon His mother's breast, + For love of her, each mother-sheep + And baby-lamb He blessed. + + + + +A PAIR OF TURTLE-DOVES + + THE PURIFICATION + + + "Where, woman, is thine offering-- + The debt of law and love?" + "My Babe a tender nestling is, + And I the mother-dove." + + + + +HIDE-AND-SEEK + + + You hid your little self, dear Lord, + As other children do; + But oh, how great was their reward + Who sought three days for you! + + + + +OUT OF BOUNDS + + + A little Boy, of heavenly birth, + But far from home to-day, + Comes down to find His ball, the Earth, + That Sin has cast away. + O comrades, let us one and all + Join in to get Him back His ball. + + + + +THE CHILD ON CALVARY + + + The Cross is tall, + And I too small + To reach His hand + Or touch His feet; + But on the sand + His footprints I have found, + And it is sweet + To kiss the holy ground. + + + + +THE CHILD + + AT NAZARETH + + + I + + Once, measuring His height, He stood + Beneath a cypress-tree, + And, leaning back against the wood, + Stretched wide His arms for me; + Whereat a brooding mother-dove + Fled fluttering from her nest above. + + + II + + At evening He loved to walk + Among the shadowy hills, and talk + Of Bethlehem; + But if perchance there passed us by + The paschal lambs, He'd look at them + In silence, long and tenderly; + And when again He'd try to speak, + I've seen the tears upon His cheek. + + + + +ST. THERESA AND THE CHILD + + + "Who art thou, son?" The little stranger smiled, + "And who art _thou_?" Whereto she made reply, + "Theresa I of Jesus am, my child." + He--radiant--"Jesus of Theresa I." + + + + +TRADITION + + + When home our blessed Lord was gone, + His mother lived alone with John; + For each had secrets to impart + That Love had taught them both _by heart_. + + + +TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: + + + Text in italics is surrounded with underscores: _italics_. + + Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been retained from the original. + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Child Verse, by John B. Tabb + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILD VERSE *** + +***** This file should be named 37810-8.txt or 37810-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/7/8/1/37810/ + +Produced by Mark C. Orton, David E. 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Tabb + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Child Verse + Poems Grave & Gay + +Author: John B. Tabb + +Release Date: October 20, 2011 [EBook #37810] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILD VERSE *** + + + + +Produced by Mark C. Orton, David E. Brown and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="giant">Child Verse: Poems Grave and Gay</span></p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/titlepage.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><span class="giant">CHILD<br/> +VERSE</span></p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">Poems Grave & Gay</span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">by John. B. Tabb</span></p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">Small, Maynard & Company.<br/> +Boston 1900</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><i>Copyright, 1899</i><br/> +<i>By Small, Maynard & Company</i><br/> +(<i>Incorporated.</i>)</p> +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><i>Entered at Stationers' Hall</i></p> +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><i>First Edition (1250 copies) November, 1899</i><br/> +<i>Second Edition (1000 copies) December, 1899</i></p> +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><i>The Rockwell and Churchill Press</i><br/> +<i>Boston, U.S.A.</i></p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p class="center">TO<br/> +MY LITTLE FRIEND<br/> +Henry Dinneen<br/> +WITH MY<br/> +LOVE AND BLESSING</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">NOTE</span></p> + + +<p><i>SOME of these verses have +appeared in other places: +one in</i> St. Nicholas, <i>one in</i> +Harper's Young People; <i>and +the</i> Sunday School Times, +<i>the</i> Youth's Companion, <i>and +the</i> Independent <i>have each +published others. To this +class belong, I think, all I reprint +from my</i> Poems <i>and</i> +Lyrics. <i>Most of the contents, +however, is new.</i></p> + + +<p class="right">J. B. T.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">CONTENTS</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> </td><td align="right"><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Hare-bells </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_3"> 3</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>At Cock-Crow</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_4"> 4</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A Duet </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_5"> 5</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Bobolink </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_6"> 6</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Bluebird </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_7"> 7</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Woodpecker</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_8"> 8</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Chimney Stacks</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_9"> 9</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Butterfly </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_10"> 10</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Honey Bee </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_11"> 11</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Bee and the Blossoms</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_12"> 12</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Tax-Gatherer</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_13"> 13</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Jack-o'-Lantern </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_14"> 14</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Pleiads</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_15"> 15</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Jack Frost's Apology</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_16"> 16</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A Cavalcade </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_17"> 17</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Silk</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_18"> 18</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Seed-Time </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_19"> 19</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A Legacy </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_20"> 20</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Amid the Roses</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_21"> 21</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Light and Shadow </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_22"> 22</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Sleep</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_23"> 23</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Fire-Fly</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_24"> 24</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Dragon-Fly </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_25"> 25</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Archery</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_26"> 26</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A Spy</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_27"> 27</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A Lament </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_28"> 28</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Fern Song</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_29"> 29</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Brook</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_30"> 30</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>An Interview</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_31"> 31</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Baby's Dimples</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_32"> 32</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A Bunch of Roses</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_33"> 33</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Foot-Soldiers</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_34"> 34</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Baby's Star</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_35"> 35</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Slumber-Song </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_36"> 36</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>An Idolater</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_37"> 37</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The New-Year Babe</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_38"> 38</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Bicycles! Tricycles!</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_40"> 40</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>High and Low</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_41"> 41</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Doctor Tumble-Bug</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_42"> 42</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Close Quarters</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_43"> 43</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Time-Brood </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_44"> 44</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Pains-Taking</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_45"> 45</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A Rub</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_46"> 46</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Cats</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_47"> 47</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>An Insectarian</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_48"> 48</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Squirrel </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_49"> 49</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Hospitality</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_50"> 50</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Frog Making</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_51"> 51</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Tree-Frog Pedigree</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_52"> 52</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>An Explanation</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_53"> 53</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Parlour and the Fly</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_54"> 54</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>No Go </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_55"> 55</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A Mouse, A Cat, and an Irish Bull </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_56"> 56</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Same with a Difference </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_57"> 57</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>An Inconvenience </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_58"> 58</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Tryst </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_59"> 59</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Etiquette </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_60"> 60</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A Sunstroke </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_61"> 61</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A Shuffle</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_62"> 62</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Washington's Ruse</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_63"> 63</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Panic</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_64"> 64</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The End of It</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_65"> 65</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A Little Child's Prayers</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_66"> 66</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Child: At Bethlehem</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_67"> 67</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td><span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">To His Mother</span></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_68"> 68</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A Lily of the Field</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_69"> 69</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Lamb-Child</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_70"> 70</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>A Pair of Turtle-Doves </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_71"> 71</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Hide-and-Seek</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_72"> 72</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Out of Bounds</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_73"> 73</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Child on Calvary</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_74"> 74</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Child: At Nazareth </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_75"> 75</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>St. Theresa and the Child </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_77"> 77</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Tradition</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_78"> 78</a></td></tr></table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="giant">CHILD VERSE</span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">HARE-BELLS</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +RING! The little Rabbits' eyes,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In the morning clear,</span><br /> +Moisten to the melodies<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">They alone can hear.</span><br /> +<br/> +Ring! The little Rabbits' feet,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Shod with racing rhyme,</span><br /> +If the breezes they would beat,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Must be beating time.</span><br /> +<br/> +Ring! When summer days are o'er,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the snowfalls come,</span><br /> +Rabbits count the hours no more,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For the bells are dumb.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">AT COCK-CROW</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +CROW! For the night has thrice denied<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The glory of the Sun,</span><br /> +And now, repentant, turns aside<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To weep what he has done.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">A DUET</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +A LITTLE yellow Bird above,<br/> +A little yellow Flower below;<br/> +The little Bird can <i>sing</i> the love<br/> +That Bird and Blossom know;<br/> +The Blossom has no song nor wing,<br/> +But <i>breathes</i> the love he cannot sing.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE BOBOLINK</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +YOUR notes are few,<br /> +But sweet your song<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">As honey-dew;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And all day long,</span><br /> +Dear Bobolink, a-listening,<br/> +I never tire to hear you sing.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE BLUEBIRD</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +WHEN God had made a host of them,<br /> +One little flower still lacked a stem<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">To hold its blossom blue;</span><br /> +So into it He breathed a song,<br/> +And suddenly, with petals strong<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">As wings, away it flew.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE WOODPECKER</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +THE wizard of the woods is he;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For in his daily round,</span><br /> +Where'er he finds a rotting tree,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He makes the timber sound.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">CHIMNEY STACKS</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +IN winter's cold and summer's heat<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The hospitable chimneys greet</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Their never-failing guests;</span><br /> +For when the sparks are upward gone,<br/> +The swallows downward come anon,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To build their neighboring nests.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">BUTTERFLY</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> + +<tr><td> +BUTTERFLY, Butterfly, sipping the sand,<br/> +Have you forgotten the flowers of the land?<br/> +Or are you so sated with honey and dew<br/> +That sand-filtered water tastes better to you?</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE HONEY-BEE</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">O BEE, good-by!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Your weapon's gone,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And you anon</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Are doomed to die;</span><br /> +But Death to you can bring<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">No second sting.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"WHY stand ye idle, blossoms bright,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The livelong summer day?"</span><br /> +"Alas! we labour all the night<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For what thou takest away."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE TAX-GATHERER</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"AND pray, who are you?"<br/> +Said the violet blue<br/> +To the Bee, with surprise<br/> +At his wonderful size,<br/> +In her eye-glass of dew.<br/> +<br/> +"I, madam," quoth he,<br/> +"Am a publican Bee,<br/> +Collecting the tax<br/> +On honey and wax.<br/> +Have you nothing for me?"</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">JACK-O'-LANTERN</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"JACK-O'-LANTERN, Jack-o'-Lantern,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Tell me where you hide by day?"</span><br /> +"In the cradle where the vapours<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dream the sunlit hours away."</span><br /> +<br/> +"Jack-o'-Lantern, Jack-o'-Lantern,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Who rekindles you at night?"</span><br /> +"Any firefly in the meadow<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Lends a Jack-o'-Lantern light."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE PLEIADS</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"WHO are ye with clustered light,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Little Sisters seven?"</span><br /> +"Crickets, chirping all the night<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">On the hearth of heaven."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">JACK FROST'S APOLOGY</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> + +<tr><td> +TO strip you of your foliage<br/> +My spirit sorely grieves;<br/> +Nor will I in the work engage<br/> +Unless you grant your leaves.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">A CAVALCADE</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"THISTLE-DOWN, Thistle-down, whither away?<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Will you not longer abide?"</span><br /> +"Nay, we have wedded the winds to-day,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And home with the rovers we ride."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">SILK</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +'TWAS the shroud of many a worm-like thing<br/> +That rose from its tangled skein;<br/> +'Twas the garb of many a god-like king<br/> +Who went to the worms again.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">SEED-TIME</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +WHEN Trumpet-flowers begin to blow<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The Thistle-downs take heed,</span><br /> +For then they know 'tis time to go<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And plant the wingèd seed.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">A LEGACY</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +DO you remember, little cloud,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">This morning when you lay—</span><br /> +A mist along the river—what<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The waters had to say?</span><br /> +<br/> +And how the many-coloured flowers<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That on the margin grew,</span><br /> +All promised when the day was done<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To leave their tints to you?</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">AMID THE ROSES</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +THERE was laughter 'mid the Roses,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For it was their natal day;</span><br /> +And the children in the garden were<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As light of heart as they.</span><br /> +<br/> +There were sighs amid the Roses,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For the night was coming on;</span><br /> +And the children—weary now of play—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Were ready to be gone.</span><br /> +<br/> +There are tears amid the Roses,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For the children are asleep;</span><br /> +And the silence of the garden makes<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The lonely blossoms weep.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">LIGHT AND SHADOW</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">"I LOVE you, little maid,"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Said the Sunbeam to the Shade,</span><br /> +As all day long she shrank away before him;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">But at twilight, ere he died,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">She was weeping at his side;</span><br /> +And he felt her tresses softly trailing o'er him.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">SLEEP</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +WHEN he is a little chap,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">We call him <i>Nap</i>.</span><br /> +When he somewhat older grows,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">We call him <i>Doze</i>.</span><br /> +When his age by hours we number,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">We call him <i>Slumber</i>.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE FIRE-FLY</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"ARE you flying through the night<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Looking where to find me?"</span><br /> +"Nay; I travel with a light<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For the folks <i>behind</i> me."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE DRAGON-FLY</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"IS skimming o'er a stagnant pool<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Your only occupation?"</span><br /> +"Ah, no: 'tis at this Summer School<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I get my education."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">ARCHERY</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +A BOW across the sky<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Another in the river,</span><br /> +Whence swallows upward fly,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Like arrows from a quiver.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">A SPY</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +SIGHED the languid Moon to the Morning Star:<br/> +"O little maid, how late you are!"<br/> +"I couldn't rise from my couch," quoth she,<br/> +"While the Man-in-the-Moon was looking at me."</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">A LAMENT</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"O LADY CLOUD, why are you weeping?" I said.<br/> +"Because," she made answer, "my rain-beau is dead."</td></tr></table> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">FERN SONG</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +DANCE to the beat of the rain, little Fern,<br/> +And spread out your palms again,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And say, "Tho' the sun</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Hath my vesture spun,</span><br /> +He had laboured, alas, in vain,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">But for the shade</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">That the Cloud hath made,</span><br /> +And the gift of the Dew and the Rain."<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Then laugh and upturn</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">All your fronds, little Fern,</span><br /> +And rejoice in the beat of the rain!</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE BROOK</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +IT is the mountain to the sea<br/> +That makes a messenger of me;<br/> +And, lest I loiter on the way<br/> +And lose what I am sent to say,<br/> +He sets his reverie to song,<br/> +And bids me sing it all day long.<br/> +Farewell! for here the stream is slow,<br/> +And I have many a mile to go.</td></tr></table> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">AN INTERVIEW</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +I SAT with chill December<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Beside the evening fire.</span><br /> +"And what do you remember,"<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I ventured to inquire,</span><br /> +"Of seasons long forsaken?"<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He answered in amaze,</span><br /> +"My age you have mistaken;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I've lived but thirty <i>days</i>."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">BABY'S DIMPLES</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +LOVE goes playing hide-and-seek<br/> +'Mid the roses on her cheek,<br/> +With a little imp of Laughter,<br/> +Who, the while he follows after,<br/> +Leaves the footprints that we trace<br/> +All about the Kissing-place.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">A BUNCH OF ROSES</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +THE rosy mouth and rosy toe<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of little baby brother</span><br /> +Until about a month ago<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Had never met each other;</span><br /> +But nowadays the neighbours sweet,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In every sort of weather,</span><br /> +Half way with rosy fingers meet,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To kiss and play together.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">FOOT-SOLDIERS</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +'TIS all the way to Toe-town,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Beyond the Knee-high hill,</span><br /> +That Baby has to travel down<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To see the soldiers drill.</span><br /> +<br/> +One, two, three, four, five, a-row—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A captain and his men—</span><br /> +And on the other side, you know,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Are six, seven, eight, nine, ten.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE BABY'S STAR</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +THE Star that watched you in your sleep<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Has just put out his light.</span><br /> +"Good-day, to you on earth," he said,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Is here in heaven Good-night.</span><br /> +<br/> +"But tell the Baby when he wakes<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To watch for my return;</span><br /> +For I'll hang out my lamp again<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When his begins to burn."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">SLUMBER-SONG</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">LO, in the west</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">A cloud at rest—</span><br /> +A babe upon its mother's breast—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Is sleeping now.</span><br /> +<br/> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Above it beams</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">A star that seems</span><br /> +To shed the light of holy dreams<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Upon its brow.</span><br /> +<br/> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">But cloud and star,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Tho' nearer far</span><br /> +They seem, my Babe, more distant are<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">From heaven than thou.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">AN IDOLATER</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +THE Baby has no skies<br/> +But Mother's eyes,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Nor any God above</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">But Mother's Love.</span><br /> +His angel sees the Father's face,<br/> +But <i>he</i> the Mother's, full of grace;<br/> +And yet the heavenly kingdom is<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Of such as this.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE NEW-YEAR BABE</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +TWO together, Babe and Year,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">At the midnight chime,</span><br /> +Through the darkness drifted here<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To the coast of Time.</span><br /> +<br/> +Two together, Babe and Year,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Over night and day,</span><br /> +Crossed the desert Winter drear<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To the land of May.</span><br /> +<br/> +On together, Babe and Year<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Swift to Summer passed.</span><br /> +"Rest a moment, Brother dear,"<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Said the Babe at last.</span><br /> +<br/> +"Nay, but onward," answered Year,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"We must farther go,</span><br /> +Through the Vale of Autumn sere<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To the Mount of Snow."</span><br /> +<br/> +Toiling upward, Babe and Year<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Climbed the frozen height.</span><br /> +"We may rest together here,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Brother Babe,—Good-night!"</span><br /> +<br/> +Then together Babe and Year<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Slept; but ere the dawn,</span><br /> +Vanishing, I know not where,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Brother Year was <i>gone</i>!</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">BICYCLES! TRICYCLES!</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +BICYCLES! Tricycles! Nay, to shun laughter,<br/> +<i>Try</i> cycles first, and <i>buy</i> cycles after;<br/> +For surely the buyer deserves but the worst<br/> +Who would buy cycles, failing to try cycles first.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">HIGH AND LOW</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +A BOOT and a Shoe and a Slipper<br/> +Lived once in the Cobbler's row:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But the Boot and the Shoe</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Would have nothing to do</span><br /> +With the Slipper, because she was low.<br/> +<br/> +But the king and the queen and their daughter<br/> +On the Cobbler chanced to call;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And as neither the Boot</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Nor the Shoe would suit</span><br /> +The Slipper went off to the ball.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">DOCTOR TUMBLE-BUG</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">WITH wondrous skill</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">He works until,</span><br /> +To suit himself, he makes it<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">A patent Pill,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">To cure or kill</span><br /> +The sufferer that takes it.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">CLOSE QUARTERS</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +LITTLE toe, big toe, three toes between,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">All in a pointed shoe!</span><br /> +Never was narrower forecastle seen<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Nor so little room for the crew.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE TIME-BROOD</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +I WONDER how the mother-Hour<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Can feed each hungry Minute,</span><br /> +And see that every one of them<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Gets sixty seconds in it;</span><br /> +<br/> +And whether, when she goes abroad,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She knows which ones attend her;</span><br /> +For all of them are just alike<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In age and size and gender.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">PAINS-TAKING</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"TAKE pains," growled the Tooth to the Dentist;<br/> +"The same," said the Dentist, "to you."<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Then he added, "No doubt,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Before you are out</span><br /> +You'll have taken most pains of the two."</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">A RUB</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +'TWIXT Handkerchief and Nose<br/> +A difference arose;<br/> +And a tradition goes<br/> +That they settled it by blows.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">CATS</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +THEY fought like demons of the night<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Beneath a shrunken moon,</span><br /> +And all the roof at dawn of light<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With <i>fiddle-strings</i> was strewn.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">AN INSECTARIAN</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"I CANNOT wash my dog," she said,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Nor touch him with a comb,</span><br /> +For fear the Fleas upon him bred<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">May find no other home."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE SQUIRREL</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +WHO combs you, little Squirrel?<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And do you twist and twirl</span><br /> +When some one puts the papers on<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To keep your tail in curl?</span><br /> +<br/> +And must you see the dentist<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For every tooth you break?</span><br /> +And are you apt from eating nuts<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To get the stomach-ache?</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">HOSPITALITY</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +SAID a Snake to a Frog with a wrinkled skin,<br/> +"As I notice, dear, that your dress is thin,<br/> +And a <i>rain</i> is coming, I'll take you in."</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">FROG-MAKING</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +SAID Frog papa to Frog mamma,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Where is our little daughter?"</span><br /> +Said Frog mamma to Frog papa,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"She's underneath the water."</span><br /> +<br/> +Then down the anxious father went,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And there, indeed, he found her,</span><br /> +A-tickling tadpoles, till they kicked<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Their tails off all around her.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE TREE-FROG PEDIGREE</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +OUR great ancestor, Polly Wog,<br/> +With her cousin, Thaddeus Pole,<br/> +Eloped from her home in an Irish bog,<br/> +And crossing the sea on the "Mayflower's" log,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">At the risk of body and soul,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Married a Frog; and thus, you see,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">How we come by a place in the family-tree</span><br /> +And the family name, Tree-frog.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">AN EXPLANATION</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +TO the young lady Toad said her mother,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"How had you the boldness, my dear,</span><br /> +To propose to Miss Polliwog's brother?"<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Why, mamma," she replied, "'tis leap year!"</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE PARLOUR AND THE FLY</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"WILL you walk into the Spider?"<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Said the Parlour to the Fly;</span><br /> +"He's the emptiest little spider<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That ever you did spy.</span><br /> +<br/> +"And he covers me with cobweb;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">So I want you to go in;</span><br /> +For—his lower chamber furnished—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He will have no room to spin."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">NO GO</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +SAID a simpering Butterfly, sipping a rose,<br/> +To a graceless Mosquito on grandpapa's nose,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Whom she hoped to entrap,</span><br /> +"Pray come, Sir, and taste of this delicate stuff."<br/> +"Thanks, Madam, I'm just now taking my snuff,"<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Quoth the impudent chap.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">A MOUSE, A CAT, AND AN IRISH BULL</span></p> + + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +A LITTLE mouse nibbled a Limburger cheese,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And back to his bedchamber stole,</span><br /> +Whence never again was he destined to squeeze,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For the smell was too large for the hole.</span><br /> +<br/> +And a Pussy Cat, passing, instinctively stood;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For her appetite urged her to try it;</span><br /> +But she answered her stomach that grumbled for food,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"I should die if I lived on such diet."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE SAME WITH A DIFFERENCE</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +WHEN first they wed he was a sing-er,<br/> +And much delight his songs did bring her;<br/> +But nowadays he proves a sin-ger,<br/> +And makes it hot for her as ginger.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">AN INCONVENIENCE</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +TO his cousin the Bat<br/> +Squeaked the envious Rat,<br/> +"How fine to be able to fly!"<br/> +Tittered she, "Leather wings<br/> +Are convenient things;<br/> +But nothing <i>to sit on</i> have I."</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE TRYST</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +POTATO was deep in the dark under ground,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Tomato, above in the light.</span><br /> +The little Tomato was ruddy and round,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The little Potato was white.</span><br /> +<br/> +And redder and redder she rounded above,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And paler and paler he grew,</span><br /> +And neither suspected a mutual love<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Till they met in a Brunswick stew.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">ETIQUETTE</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"I LONG," said the new-gathered Lettuce,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">"To meet our illustrious guest."</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Cried the Caster, "Such haste</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Is in very bad taste:</span><br /> +See first that you're properly <i>dressed</i>."</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">A SUNSTROKE</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">THE Sun courted Water,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Earth's loveliest daughter,</span><br /> +And strove to abduct her in vain:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">For, when he had caught her,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And to the clouds brought her,</span><br /> +Home she came running in rain.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">A SHUFFLE</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +THERE was a rumpus in the Pack,<br/> +Whereof the King and Queen and Jack<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Were playing knavish parts.</span><br /> +On Club and Spade was put the blame;<br/> +But these asserted 'twas a game<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Of Diamonds and Hearts.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">WASHINGTON'S RUSE</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +WHEN Georgie would not go to bed,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">If some one asked him why,</span><br /> +"What is the use?" he gravely said,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">"You know I cannot lie."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">PANIC</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +IT struck the signs of the Zodiac,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Around the immovable Man</span><br /> +Who stands in front of the Almanack<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To show his interior plan.</span><br /> +<br/> +The Scorpion attacked the Bull,<br/> +The Bull aroused the Lion;<br/> +The Crab by their tails<br/> +Flung the Fish in the Scales,<br/> +Where they floundered as on a gridiron;<br/> +The Billy Goat went for the Gemini twins;<br/> +The Ram made a rush at Aquarius;<br/> +And a n<i>arrow</i> escape had the Virgo's shins<br/> +From the shaft of her beau Sagittarius.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE END OF IT</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +A WHOLE-TAIL dog, and a half-tail dog,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And a dog without a tail,</span><br /> +Went all three out on an autumn day<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To follow a red-fox trail.</span><br /> +<br/> +But the dogs that carried their tails along<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Fell out, it is said, by the way;</span><br /> +And the loss of a tail and a half at the end<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of the dogs put an end to the fray.</span><br /> +<br/> +When each, as a morsel sweet, gulped down<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">What had late been a neighbor's pride,</span><br /> +"You've kept your tails," laughed the no-tail dog,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"But you wear them now <i>inside</i>."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">A LITTLE CHILD'S PRAYERS</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td align="center">I</td></tr> + +<tr><td> +MAKE me, dear Lord, polite and kind<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To every one, I pray;</span><br /> +And may I ask you how you find<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Yourself</i>, dear Lord, to-day?</span></td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">II</td></tr> + +<tr><td> +Lord, I have lost a toy<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With which I love to play;</span><br /> +And as you were yourself a boy<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of just my age to-day,</span><br /> +O Son of Mary, would you mind<br/> +To help me now my toy to find?</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE CHILD</span></p> + +<p class="center">AT BETHLEHEM</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td align="center">I</td></tr> + +<tr><td> +LONG, long before the Babe could speak,<br/> +When he would kiss his mother's cheek<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And to her bosom press,</span><br /> +The brightest angels, standing near,<br/> +Would turn away to hide a tear,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For they are motherless.</span></td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">II</td></tr> + +<tr><td> +Where were ye, Birds, that bless His name,<br/> +When wingless to the world He came,<br/> +And <i>wordless</i>,—tho' Himself the Word<br/> +That made the blossom and the bird?</td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">III<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span></td></tr> + +<tr><td align="center">TO HIS MOTHER</td></tr> + +<tr><td> +He brought a Lily white,<br/> +That bowed its fragrant head<br/> +And blushed a rosy red<br/> +Before her fairer light.<br/> +<br/> +He brought a Rose; and lo,<br/> +The crimson blossom saw<br/> +Her beauty; and in awe<br/> +Became as white as snow.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">A LILY OF THE FIELD</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +IN all his glory, Solomon<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Was never so arrayed;</span><br /> +Yet far more beautiful is one—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A MOTHER and a MAID—</span><br /> +Whose loveliness and lowliness<br/> +God stooped from highest heaven to bless.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE LAMB-CHILD</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +WHEN Christ the Babe was born,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Full many a little lamb,</span><br /> +Upon the wintry hills forlorn,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Was nestled near its dam;</span><br /> +<br/> +And, waking or asleep,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Upon His mother's breast,</span><br /> +For love of her, each mother-sheep<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And baby-lamb He blessed.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">A PAIR OF TURTLE-DOVES</span></p> + +<p class="center">THE PURIFICATION</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"WHERE, woman, is thine offering—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The debt of law and love?"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"My Babe a tender nestling is,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And I the mother-dove."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">HIDE-AND-SEEK</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +YOU hid your little self, dear Lord,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As other children do;</span><br /> +But oh, how great was their reward<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Who sought three days for you!</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">OUT OF BOUNDS</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +A LITTLE Boy, of heavenly birth,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But far from home to-day,</span><br /> +Comes down to find His ball, the Earth,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That Sin has cast away.</span><br /> +O comrades, let us one and all<br/> +Join in to get Him back His ball.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE CHILD ON CALVARY</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">THE Cross is tall,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And I too small</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">To reach His hand</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Or touch His feet;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">But on the sand</span><br /> +His footprints I have found,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And it is sweet</span><br /> +To kiss the holy ground.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">THE CHILD</span></p> + +<p class="center">AT NAZARETH</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> + +<tr><td align="center">I</td></tr> +<tr><td> +ONCE, measuring His height, He stood<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Beneath a cypress-tree,</span><br /> +And, leaning back against the wood,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Stretched wide His arms for me;</span><br /> +Whereat a brooding mother-dove<br/> +Fled fluttering from her nest above.</td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">II</td></tr> + +<tr><td>At evening He loved to walk<br/> +Among the shadowy hills, and talk<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Of Bethlehem;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But if perchance there passed us by</span><br /> +The paschal lambs, He'd look at them<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In silence, long and tenderly;</span><br /> +And when again He'd try to speak,<br/> +I've seen the tears upon His cheek.</td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">ST. THERESA AND THE CHILD</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +"WHO art thou, son?" The little stranger smiled,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"And who art <i>thou</i>?" Whereto she made reply,</span><br /> +"Theresa I of Jesus am, my child."<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He—radiant—"Jesus of Theresa I."</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">TRADITION</span></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +WHEN home our blessed Lord was gone,<br/> +His mother lived alone with John;<br/> +For each had secrets to impart<br/> +That Love had taught them both <i>by heart</i>.</td></tr></table> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:</span></p> + +<p class="center"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been retained from the original.</span></p> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Child Verse, by John B. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Child Verse + Poems Grave & Gay + +Author: John B. Tabb + +Release Date: October 20, 2011 [EBook #37810] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILD VERSE *** + + + + +Produced by Mark C. Orton, David E. Brown and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + + + + + Child Verse: Poems Grave and Gay + + + CHILD + VERSE + + + Poems Grave & Gay + by John. B. Tabb + + + Small, Maynard & Company. + Boston 1900 + + + _Copyright, 1899_ + _By Small, Maynard & Company_ + (_Incorporated._) + + _Entered at Stationers' Hall_ + + _First Edition (1250 copies) November, 1899_ + _Second Edition (1000 copies) December, 1899_ + + _The Rockwell and Churchill Press_ + _Boston, U.S.A._ + + + TO + MY LITTLE FRIEND + Henry Dinneen + WITH MY + LOVE AND BLESSING + + + + +NOTE + + +_Some of these verses have appeared in other places: one in St. +Nicholas, one in Harper's Young People; and the Sunday School Times, the +Youth's Companion, and the Independent have each published others. To +this class belong, I think, all I reprint from my Poems and Lyrics. Most +of the contents, however, is new._ + + J. B. T. + + + + +CONTENTS + + + PAGE + +Hare-bells 3 + +At Cock-Crow 4 + +A Duet 5 + +The Bobolink 6 + +The Bluebird 7 + +The Woodpecker 8 + +Chimney Stacks 9 + +Butterfly 10 + +The Honey Bee 11 + +The Bee and the Blossoms 12 + +The Tax-Gatherer 13 + +Jack-o'-Lantern 14 + +The Pleiads 15 + +Jack Frost's Apology 16 + +A Cavalcade 17 + +Silk 18 + +Seed-Time 19 + +A Legacy 20 + +Amid the Roses 21 + +Light and Shadow 22 + +Sleep 23 + +The Fire-Fly 24 + +The Dragon-Fly 25 + +Archery 26 + +A Spy 27 + +A Lament 28 + +Fern Song 29 + +The Brook 30 + +An Interview 31 + +Baby's Dimples 32 + +A Bunch of Roses 33 + +Foot-Soldiers 34 + +The Baby's Star 35 + +Slumber-Song 36 + +An Idolater 37 + +The New-Year Babe 38 + +Bicycles! Tricycles! 40 + +High and Low 41 + +Doctor Tumble-Bug 42 + +Close Quarters 43 + +The Time-Brood 44 + +Pains-Taking 45 + +A Rub 46 + +Cats 47 + +An Insectarian 48 + +The Squirrel 49 + +Hospitality 50 + +Frog Making 51 + +The Tree-Frog Pedigree 52 + +An Explanation 53 + +The Parlour and the Fly 54 + +No Go 55 + +A Mouse, A Cat, and an Irish Bull 56 + +The Same with a Difference 57 + +An Inconvenience 58 + +The Tryst 59 + +Etiquette 60 + +A Sunstroke 61 + +A Shuffle 62 + +Washington's Ruse 63 + +Panic 64 + +The End of It 65 + +A Little Child's Prayers 66 + +The Child: At Bethlehem 67 + + To His Mother 68 + +A Lily of the Field 69 + +The Lamb-Child 70 + +A Pair of Turtle-Doves 71 + +Hide-and-Seek 72 + +Out of Bounds 73 + +The Child on Calvary 74 + +The Child: At Nazareth 75 + +St. Theresa and the Child 77 + +Tradition 78 + + + + +CHILD VERSE + + + + +HARE-BELLS + + + Ring! The little Rabbits' eyes, + In the morning clear, + Moisten to the melodies + They alone can hear. + + Ring! The little Rabbits' feet, + Shod with racing rhyme, + If the breezes they would beat, + Must be beating time. + + Ring! When summer days are o'er, + And the snowfalls come, + Rabbits count the hours no more, + For the bells are dumb. + + + + +AT COCK-CROW + + + Crow! For the night has thrice denied + The glory of the Sun, + And now, repentant, turns aside + To weep what he has done. + + + + +A DUET + + + A little yellow Bird above, + A little yellow Flower below; + The little Bird can _sing_ the love + That Bird and Blossom know; + The Blossom has no song nor wing, + But _breathes_ the love he cannot sing. + + + + +THE BOBOLINK + + + Your notes are few, + But sweet your song + As honey-dew; + And all day long, + Dear Bobolink, a-listening, + I never tire to hear you sing. + + + + +THE BLUEBIRD + + + When God had made a host of them, + One little flower still lacked a stem + To hold its blossom blue; + So into it He breathed a song, + And suddenly, with petals strong + As wings, away it flew. + + + + +THE WOODPECKER + + + The wizard of the woods is he; + For in his daily round, + Where'er he finds a rotting tree, + He makes the timber sound. + + + + +CHIMNEY STACKS + + + In winter's cold and summer's heat + The hospitable chimneys greet + Their never-failing guests; + For when the sparks are upward gone, + The swallows downward come anon, + To build their neighboring nests. + + + + +BUTTERFLY + + + Butterfly, Butterfly, sipping the sand, + Have you forgotten the flowers of the land? + Or are you so sated with honey and dew + That sand-filtered water tastes better to you? + + + + +THE HONEY-BEE + + + O bee, good-by! + Your weapon's gone, + And you anon + Are doomed to die; + But Death to you can bring + No second sting. + + + + +THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS + + + "Why stand ye idle, blossoms bright, + The livelong summer day?" + "Alas! we labour all the night + For what thou takest away." + + + + +THE TAX-GATHERER + + + "And pray, who are you?" + Said the violet blue + To the Bee, with surprise + At his wonderful size, + In her eye-glass of dew. + + "I, madam," quoth he, + "Am a publican Bee, + Collecting the tax + On honey and wax. + Have you nothing for me?" + + + + +JACK-O'-LANTERN + + + "Jack-o'-Lantern, Jack-o'-Lantern, + Tell me where you hide by day?" + "In the cradle where the vapours + Dream the sunlit hours away." + + "Jack-o'-Lantern, Jack-o'-Lantern, + Who rekindles you at night?" + "Any firefly in the meadow + Lends a Jack-o'-Lantern light." + + + + +THE PLEIADS + + + "Who are ye with clustered light, + Little Sisters seven?" + "Crickets, chirping all the night + On the hearth of heaven." + + + + +JACK FROST'S APOLOGY + + + To strip you of your foliage + My spirit sorely grieves; + Nor will I in the work engage + Unless you grant your leaves. + + + + +A CAVALCADE + + + "Thistle-down, Thistle-down, whither away? + Will you not longer abide?" + "Nay, we have wedded the winds to-day, + And home with the rovers we ride." + + + + +SILK + + + 'Twas the shroud of many a worm-like thing + That rose from its tangled skein; + 'Twas the garb of many a god-like king + Who went to the worms again. + + + + +SEED-TIME + + + When Trumpet-flowers begin to blow + The Thistle-downs take heed, + For then they know 'tis time to go + And plant the winged seed. + + + + +A LEGACY + + + Do you remember, little cloud, + This morning when you lay-- + A mist along the river--what + The waters had to say? + + And how the many-coloured flowers + That on the margin grew, + All promised when the day was done + To leave their tints to you? + + + + +AMID THE ROSES + + + There was laughter 'mid the Roses, + For it was their natal day; + And the children in the garden were + As light of heart as they. + + There were sighs amid the Roses, + For the night was coming on; + And the children--weary now of play-- + Were ready to be gone. + + There are tears amid the Roses, + For the children are asleep; + And the silence of the garden makes + The lonely blossoms weep. + + + + +LIGHT AND SHADOW + + + "I love you, little maid," + Said the Sunbeam to the Shade, + As all day long she shrank away before him; + But at twilight, ere he died, + She was weeping at his side; + And he felt her tresses softly trailing o'er him. + + + + +SLEEP + + + When he is a little chap, + We call him _Nap_. + When he somewhat older grows, + We call him _Doze_. + When his age by hours we number, + We call him _Slumber_. + + + + +THE FIRE-FLY + + + "Are you flying through the night + Looking where to find me?" + "Nay; I travel with a light + For the folks _behind_ me." + + + + +THE DRAGON-FLY + + + "Is skimming o'er a stagnant pool + Your only occupation?" + "Ah, no: 'tis at this Summer School + I get my education." + + + + +ARCHERY + + + A bow across the sky + Another in the river, + Whence swallows upward fly, + Like arrows from a quiver. + + + + +A SPY + + + Sighed the languid Moon to the Morning Star: + "O little maid, how late you are!" + "I couldn't rise from my couch," quoth she, + "While the Man-in-the-Moon was looking at me." + + + + +A LAMENT + + + "O lady cloud, why are you weeping?" I said. + "Because," she made answer, "my rain-beau is dead." + + + + +FERN SONG + + + Dance to the beat of the rain, little Fern, + And spread out your palms again, + And say, "Tho' the sun + Hath my vesture spun, + He had laboured, alas, in vain, + But for the shade + That the Cloud hath made, + And the gift of the Dew and the Rain." + Then laugh and upturn + All your fronds, little Fern, + And rejoice in the beat of the rain! + + + + +THE BROOK + + + It is the mountain to the sea + That makes a messenger of me; + And, lest I loiter on the way + And lose what I am sent to say, + He sets his reverie to song, + And bids me sing it all day long. + Farewell! for here the stream is slow, + And I have many a mile to go. + + + + +AN INTERVIEW + + + I sat with chill December + Beside the evening fire. + "And what do you remember," + I ventured to inquire, + "Of seasons long forsaken?" + He answered in amaze, + "My age you have mistaken; + I've lived but thirty _days_." + + + + +BABY'S DIMPLES + + + Love goes playing hide-and-seek + 'Mid the roses on her cheek, + With a little imp of Laughter, + Who, the while he follows after, + Leaves the footprints that we trace + All about the Kissing-place. + + + + +A BUNCH OF ROSES + + + The rosy mouth and rosy toe + Of little baby brother + Until about a month ago + Had never met each other; + But nowadays the neighbours sweet, + In every sort of weather, + Half way with rosy fingers meet, + To kiss and play together. + + + + +FOOT-SOLDIERS + + + 'Tis all the way to Toe-town, + Beyond the Knee-high hill, + That Baby has to travel down + To see the soldiers drill. + + One, two, three, four, five, a-row-- + A captain and his men-- + And on the other side, you know, + Are six, seven, eight, nine, ten. + + + + +THE BABY'S STAR + + + The Star that watched you in your sleep + Has just put out his light. + "Good-day, to you on earth," he said, + "Is here in heaven Good-night. + + "But tell the Baby when he wakes + To watch for my return; + For I'll hang out my lamp again + When his begins to burn." + + + + +SLUMBER-SONG + + + Lo, in the west + A cloud at rest-- + A babe upon its mother's breast-- + Is sleeping now. + + Above it beams + A star that seems + To shed the light of holy dreams + Upon its brow. + + But cloud and star, + Tho' nearer far + They seem, my Babe, more distant are + From heaven than thou. + + + + +AN IDOLATER + + + The Baby has no skies + But Mother's eyes, + Nor any God above + But Mother's Love. + His angel sees the Father's face, + But _he_ the Mother's, full of grace; + And yet the heavenly kingdom is + Of such as this. + + + + +THE NEW-YEAR BABE + + + Two together, Babe and Year, + At the midnight chime, + Through the darkness drifted here + To the coast of Time. + + Two together, Babe and Year, + Over night and day, + Crossed the desert Winter drear + To the land of May. + + On together, Babe and Year + Swift to Summer passed. + "Rest a moment, Brother dear," + Said the Babe at last. + + "Nay, but onward," answered Year, + "We must farther go, + Through the Vale of Autumn sere + To the Mount of Snow." + + Toiling upward, Babe and Year + Climbed the frozen height. + "We may rest together here, + Brother Babe,--Good-night!" + + Then together Babe and Year + Slept; but ere the dawn, + Vanishing, I know not where, + Brother Year was _gone_! + + + + +BICYCLES! TRICYCLES! + + + Bicycles! Tricycles! Nay, to shun laughter, + _Try_ cycles first, and _buy_ cycles after; + For surely the buyer deserves but the worst + Who would buy cycles, failing to try cycles first. + + + + +HIGH AND LOW + + + A Boot and a Shoe and a Slipper + Lived once in the Cobbler's row: + But the Boot and the Shoe + Would have nothing to do + With the Slipper, because she was low. + + But the king and the queen and their daughter + On the Cobbler chanced to call; + And as neither the Boot + Nor the Shoe would suit + The Slipper went off to the ball. + + + + +DOCTOR TUMBLE-BUG + + + With wondrous skill + He works until, + To suit himself, he makes it + A patent Pill, + To cure or kill + The sufferer that takes it. + + + + +CLOSE QUARTERS + + + Little toe, big toe, three toes between, + All in a pointed shoe! + Never was narrower forecastle seen + Nor so little room for the crew. + + + + +THE TIME-BROOD + + + I wonder how the mother-Hour + Can feed each hungry Minute, + And see that every one of them + Gets sixty seconds in it; + + And whether, when she goes abroad, + She knows which ones attend her; + For all of them are just alike + In age and size and gender. + + + + +PAINS-TAKING + + + "Take pains," growled the Tooth to the Dentist; + "The same," said the Dentist, "to you." + Then he added, "No doubt, + Before you are out + You'll have taken most pains of the two." + + + + +A RUB + + + 'Twixt Handkerchief and Nose + A difference arose; + And a tradition goes + That they settled it by blows. + + + + +CATS + + + They fought like demons of the night + Beneath a shrunken moon, + And all the roof at dawn of light + With _fiddle-strings_ was strewn. + + + + +AN INSECTARIAN + + + "I cannot wash my dog," she said, + "Nor touch him with a comb, + For fear the Fleas upon him bred + May find no other home." + + + + +THE SQUIRREL + + + Who combs you, little Squirrel? + And do you twist and twirl + When some one puts the papers on + To keep your tail in curl? + + And must you see the dentist + For every tooth you break? + And are you apt from eating nuts + To get the stomach-ache? + + + + +HOSPITALITY + + + Said a Snake to a Frog with a wrinkled skin, + "As I notice, dear, that your dress is thin, + And a _rain_ is coming, I'll take you in." + + + + +FROG-MAKING + + + Said Frog papa to Frog mamma, + "Where is our little daughter?" + Said Frog mamma to Frog papa, + "She's underneath the water." + + Then down the anxious father went, + And there, indeed, he found her, + A-tickling tadpoles, till they kicked + Their tails off all around her. + + + + +THE TREE-FROG PEDIGREE + + + Our great ancestor, Polly Wog, + With her cousin, Thaddeus Pole, + Eloped from her home in an Irish bog, + And crossing the sea on the "Mayflower's" log, + At the risk of body and soul, + Married a Frog; and thus, you see, + How we come by a place in the family-tree + And the family name, Tree-frog. + + + + +AN EXPLANATION + + + To the young lady Toad said her mother, + "How had you the boldness, my dear, + To propose to Miss Polliwog's brother?" + "Why, mamma," she replied, "'tis leap year!" + + + + +THE PARLOUR AND THE FLY + + + "Will you walk into the Spider?" + Said the Parlour to the Fly; + "He's the emptiest little spider + That ever you did spy. + + "And he covers me with cobweb; + So I want you to go in; + For--his lower chamber furnished-- + He will have no room to spin." + + + + +NO GO + + + Said a simpering Butterfly, sipping a rose, + To a graceless Mosquito on grandpapa's nose, + Whom she hoped to entrap, + "Pray come, Sir, and taste of this delicate stuff." + "Thanks, Madam, I'm just now taking my snuff," + Quoth the impudent chap. + + + + +A MOUSE, A CAT, AND AN IRISH BULL + + + A little mouse nibbled a Limburger cheese, + And back to his bedchamber stole, + Whence never again was he destined to squeeze, + For the smell was too large for the hole. + + And a Pussy Cat, passing, instinctively stood; + For her appetite urged her to try it; + But she answered her stomach that grumbled for food, + "I should die if I lived on such diet." + + + + +THE SAME WITH A DIFFERENCE + + + When first they wed he was a sing-er, + And much delight his songs did bring her; + But nowadays he proves a sin-ger, + And makes it hot for her as ginger. + + + + +AN INCONVENIENCE + + + To his cousin the Bat + Squeaked the envious Rat, + "How fine to be able to fly!" + Tittered she, "Leather wings + Are convenient things; + But nothing _to sit on_ have I." + + + + +THE TRYST + + + Potato was deep in the dark under ground, + Tomato, above in the light. + The little Tomato was ruddy and round, + The little Potato was white. + + And redder and redder she rounded above, + And paler and paler he grew, + And neither suspected a mutual love + Till they met in a Brunswick stew. + + + + +ETIQUETTE + + + "I long," said the new-gathered Lettuce, + "To meet our illustrious guest." + Cried the Caster, "Such haste + Is in very bad taste: + See first that you're properly _dressed_." + + + + +A SUNSTROKE + + + The Sun courted Water, + Earth's loveliest daughter, + And strove to abduct her in vain: + For, when he had caught her, + And to the clouds brought her, + Home she came running in rain. + + + + +A SHUFFLE + + + There was a rumpus in the Pack, + Whereof the King and Queen and Jack + Were playing knavish parts. + On Club and Spade was put the blame; + But these asserted 'twas a game + Of Diamonds and Hearts. + + + + +WASHINGTON'S RUSE + + + When Georgie would not go to bed, + If some one asked him why, + "What is the use?" he gravely said, + "You know I cannot lie." + + + + +PANIC + + + It struck the signs of the Zodiac, + Around the immovable Man + Who stands in front of the Almanack + To show his interior plan. + + The Scorpion attacked the Bull, + The Bull aroused the Lion; + The Crab by their tails + Flung the Fish in the Scales, + Where they floundered as on a gridiron; + The Billy Goat went for the Gemini twins; + The Ram made a rush at Aquarius; + And a n_arrow_ escape had the Virgo's shins + From the shaft of her beau Sagittarius. + + + + +THE END OF IT + + + A whole-tail dog, and a half-tail dog, + And a dog without a tail, + Went all three out on an autumn day + To follow a red-fox trail. + + But the dogs that carried their tails along + Fell out, it is said, by the way; + And the loss of a tail and a half at the end + Of the dogs put an end to the fray. + + When each, as a morsel sweet, gulped down + What had late been a neighbor's pride, + "You've kept your tails," laughed the no-tail dog, + "But you wear them now _inside_." + + + + +A LITTLE CHILD'S PRAYERS + + + I + + Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind + To every one, I pray; + And may I ask you how you find + _Yourself_, dear Lord, to-day? + + + II + + Lord, I have lost a toy + With which I love to play; + And as you were yourself a boy + Of just my age to-day, + O Son of Mary, would you mind + To help me now my toy to find? + + + + +THE CHILD + + AT BETHLEHEM + + + I + + Long, long before the Babe could speak, + When he would kiss his mother's cheek + And to her bosom press, + The brightest angels, standing near, + Would turn away to hide a tear, + For they are motherless. + + + II + + Where were ye, Birds, that bless His name, + When wingless to the world He came, + And _wordless_,--tho' Himself the Word + That made the blossom and the bird? + + + III + + TO HIS MOTHER + + He brought a Lily white, + That bowed its fragrant head + And blushed a rosy red + Before her fairer light. + + He brought a Rose; and lo, + The crimson blossom saw + Her beauty; and in awe + Became as white as snow. + + + + +A LILY OF THE FIELD + + + In all his glory, Solomon + Was never so arrayed; + Yet far more beautiful is one-- + A MOTHER and a MAID-- + Whose loveliness and lowliness + God stooped from highest heaven to bless. + + + + +THE LAMB-CHILD + + + When Christ the Babe was born, + Full many a little lamb, + Upon the wintry hills forlorn, + Was nestled near its dam; + + And, waking or asleep, + Upon His mother's breast, + For love of her, each mother-sheep + And baby-lamb He blessed. + + + + +A PAIR OF TURTLE-DOVES + + THE PURIFICATION + + + "Where, woman, is thine offering-- + The debt of law and love?" + "My Babe a tender nestling is, + And I the mother-dove." + + + + +HIDE-AND-SEEK + + + You hid your little self, dear Lord, + As other children do; + But oh, how great was their reward + Who sought three days for you! + + + + +OUT OF BOUNDS + + + A little Boy, of heavenly birth, + But far from home to-day, + Comes down to find His ball, the Earth, + That Sin has cast away. + O comrades, let us one and all + Join in to get Him back His ball. + + + + +THE CHILD ON CALVARY + + + The Cross is tall, + And I too small + To reach His hand + Or touch His feet; + But on the sand + His footprints I have found, + And it is sweet + To kiss the holy ground. + + + + +THE CHILD + + AT NAZARETH + + + I + + Once, measuring His height, He stood + Beneath a cypress-tree, + And, leaning back against the wood, + Stretched wide His arms for me; + Whereat a brooding mother-dove + Fled fluttering from her nest above. + + + II + + At evening He loved to walk + Among the shadowy hills, and talk + Of Bethlehem; + But if perchance there passed us by + The paschal lambs, He'd look at them + In silence, long and tenderly; + And when again He'd try to speak, + I've seen the tears upon His cheek. + + + + +ST. 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