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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of Child Whispers, by Enid Blyton
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-Title: Child Whispers
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-Author: Enid Blyton
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-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILD WHISPERS ***
-
-
-
-
-CHILD WHISPERS
-
-By
-
-ENID BLYTON
-
-LONDON
-
-J. SAVILLE & CO. LIMITED
-
-EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS,
-
-5, GOWER STREET, W.C.I
-
-1923
-
-
-
-
-DEDICATED TO FOUR LITTLE BROTHERS
-
-DAVID, BRIAN, PETER
-AND JOHN
-
-
-
-
-CONTENTS
-
-Preface
-Rosamunda
-Disappointment
-On Strike
-Fairy Sight
-A Fairy Necklace
-Paying a Call
-Before Breakfast
-Goblins
-The Fairy’s Bedtime
-Poppies
-A Queer Butterfly
-Lovely Frocks
-The Jolly Wind
-The Witch’s Balloons
-Fairy Music
-The Little Folk on the Hill
-The Moon at Tea-Time
-April
-The Silent Pool
-This Afternoon
-The “Feeling”
-The Naughty Gnome
-Six o’clock
-The Imp’s Mistake
-Put to Bed
-The Merry Breeze
-An Accident
-A Happy Ending
-
-
-
-
-PREFACE
-
-
-The children of nowadays are different in
-many of their likes and dislikes, from the
-children of ten years ago. This change of
-attitude is noticeable as much in the world of
-children’s poetry as it is in other things.
-
-In my experience of teaching I have found
-the children delight in two distinct types of
-verses. These are the humorous type and the
-imaginative poetical type--but the humour
-must be from the child’s point of view and not
-from the “grown-up’s”--a very different
-thing. And the imagination in the second
-type of poem must be clear and whimsical,
-otherwise the appeal fails and the child does
-not respond.
-
-As I found a lack of suitable poems of the
-types I wanted, I began to write them myself
-for the children under my supervision, taking,
-in many cases, the ideas, humorous or whimsical,
-of the children themselves, as the theme
-of the poems. Finding them to be successful,
-I continued, until the suggestion was made to
-me that many children, other than those in
-my own school, might enjoy hearing and
-learning the poems. Accordingly this collection
-of verses is put forward in the hope that
-it will be a source of sincere enjoyment to the
-little people of the world.
-
-
-ENID BLYTON.
-
-
-
-
-ROSAMUNDA
-
-
-In the garden very early
-Rosamunda’s walking,
-And to her surprise she hears
-Lots of fairies talking.
-
-She looks around but cannot see
-Where they can be hiding;
-Not on any butterfly
-Nor bee, are they a-riding.
-
-She goes to where the tulips grow
-And finds a sight of wonder,
-For out pop fairy elves and say,
-“Good-morning, Rosamunda!”
-
-
-
-
-DISAPPOINTMENT
-
-
-Once I found a fairy
-In my cup of tea.
-She was nearly drowned
-And wet as wet could be.
-
-I picked her out and dried her
-And asked her if she’d stay;
-“Oh, no,” she said, “_I mustn’t_,”
-And off she flew away.
-
-
-
-
-ON STRIKE
-
-
-My dollies are so naughty,
-I’m afraid they’ve gone on strike;
-They won’t let me undress them,
-But just do what they like.
-
-They say they want a penny
-To spend on Saturday,
-And ’less I let them have it,
-They’ll not join in my play.
-
-I can’t let them behave so,
-They’ll never grow up right--
-But I know they will be sorry
-When I don’t kiss them good-night.
-
-
-
-
-FAIRY SIGHT
-
-
-If you want to see a fairy,
-In the middle of the night,
-Wrap the blanket round you,
-And shut your eyes up tight.
-Say “Akral dafarray!”
-And open your right eye,
-And (if you’ve been a good child)
-A fairy flutters by!
-
-
-
-
-A FAIRY NECKLACE
-
-
-The rain had rained all morning,
-And then the sun shone fair,
-And all the garden glittered
-With raindrops everywhere!
-
-There were raindrops on the grasses,
-And raindrops on the trees,
-And how they shook and shivered,
-Like diamonds, in the breeze!
-
-And oh, I saw a fairy
-Come flying right by me;
-She shook a score of raindrops,
-From off the hazel tree.
-
-She slung them on a spider’s thread,
-A necklace made of rain!
-She clasped them round her little neck,
-And off she flew again!
-
-
-
-
-PAYING A CALL
-
-
-I put on my hat with the band of blue,
-And my frock with the frilly lace,
-I took my sunshade, and held it up,
-To keep the sun off my face.
-
-I thought I’d go calling like Mother does,
-And have pretty cakes for tea,
-And sit on the edge of a chair and talk
-With a tea-cup on my knee.
-
-I walked all along the sunny road,
-Till I came to Mrs. Leroy’s.
-I climbed the steps, and I rang the bell--
-It made such a jangley noise.
-
-And then I suddenly felt afraid,
-And couldn’t think what I would say
-When they opened the door--so I jumped
-the steps,
-And I ran back home all the way.
-
-Nurse saw me coining in my best frock,
-And oh, how she scolded me!
-And that’s why I’m wearing an overall now,
-And not having jam for tea.
-
-
-
-
-BEFORE BREAKFAST
-
-
-I go round the garden early, when the grass is
-bright with dew,
-And I have to put goloshes on my feet.
-I’ll tell you all I do there, right away from
-people’s view,
-When the world is half-awake and very
-sweet.
-
-I shake the lady hollyhocks to make the bees
-fly out,
-And I see how much they’ve grown since
-yesterday.
-I pop the fattest fuchsia buds, if gardener’s
-not about,
-And I blow the dandelion clocks away.
-
-I smell the honeysuckle and the lavender as
-well,
-I take the rose-leaves fallen down beyond;
-They’re pink and white and beautiful, just like
-a fairy shell,
-And I save them up for sailing on the pond.
-
-I stand upon the mossy wall, and smell the
-new mown hay,
-And I feel the wind that blows the clouds
-along;
-I think there never, _never_ could be such a
-lovely day--
-And then, I hear that horrid breakfast gong!
-
-
-
-
-GOBLINS
-
-
-When I am cross as I can be, and nothing’s
-ever right,
-Then Mummy says there’s naughty goblins,
-hiding out of sight,
-Who try to make me do what’s wrong, and try
-to make me bad,
-They like me to forget things, and make other
-people sad.
-
-I’ve never found them anywhere, I don’t know
-where to look,
-I’ve only seen them in the pages of my
-picture-book,
-But oh, I’m _sure_ they’re all about in
-everybody’s house,
-Little creepy-crawley things, as quiet as a
-mouse.
-
-When cook forgets to put the sugar in the
-Sunday cake,
-And gardener breaks the barrow-wheel, and
-loses Daddie’s rake,
-And Nurse is very cross indeed, and won’t let
-me go out,
-I always know those nasty little goblins are
-about.
-
-I play next-door with Peter, and there’s
-goblins even there,
-Altho’ it’s such a lovely house, I can’t think
-how they dare,
-But often Peter’s Daddie is as grumpy as can
-be,
-All over nothing, so the goblins must be there,
-you see.
-
-Whenever things go very wrong, I hide myself
-away,
-To try and see those goblins, and I’m sure I
-shall some day.
-And if they bother you at all, you try and
-catch them, too,
-And _will_ you save them up for me to look at,
-if you do?
-
-
-
-
-THE FAIRY’S BEDTIME
-
-
-Just before they go to bed,
-The fairy babes are told
-To sit upon their toadstools, and
-To be as good as gold.
-
-So down they sit, all in a ring,
-It’s supper-time, they know,
-For look, their little acorn cups
-Are standing in a row.
-
-A fairy fills the little cups,
-With dew and honey sweet
-And gives one to each little babe
-With something nice to eat.
-
-Then off into the trees they fly
-And curl themselves up tight
-Inside a leaf that’s soft and warm,
-And there they sleep all night.
-
-
-
-
-POPPIES
-
-
-Up the lane behind our house
-A little hill you climb,
-And at the top on either side
-There is in Summer time--
-A cornfield waving in the wind,
-Where poppies shake their head
-And peep at you between the corn,
-A glowing dancing red--
-I’ll tell you what I did one day
-When nurse was cross with me,
-And pulled my hair back in a plait,
-As tight as tight could be--
-I crept up to the swaying corn
-And in the poppies there
-I sat down by myself, and then
-I undid all my hair!
-I picked some gleaming poppies red,
-The biggest I could find,
-I wound them tightly in my curls,
-And some hung down behind.
-I walked about so very grand
-Till it began to rain,
-When one by one the poppies fell,
-And I went home again.
-
-
-
-
-A QUEER BUTTERFLY
-
-
-I caught a lovely butterfly,
-In Marianna’s net.
-It was the sweetest blue and gold,
-The prettiest I’d seen yet.
-
-But Marianna came and said
-The butterfly should be
-Not mine, but _hers_, because the net
-Belonged to her, not me.
-
-We quarrelled hard, and didn’t stop,
-Until my frock was torn,
-And then she pointed down to where
-The net lay, on the lawn.
-
-The butterfly was creeping out
-And spread its wings of blue,
-And then _stood up_, just fancy that!
-You’d hardly think it true!
-
-We saw then what it really was,
-A fairy, come to play,
-And all because we quarrelled so,
-She fluttered right away.
-
-
-
-
-LOVELY FROCKS
-
-
-In my Mummy’s wardrobe, there are lots of
-lovely frocks,
-I know because I’ve seen them hanging
-there;
-There’s purple, and there’s orange, and a frilly
-one of blue,
-And a yellow that is shiny like her hair.
-
-The satin frocks make Mummy look just like a
-fairy Queen--
-But she can’t cuddle me at all in those--
-And when she wears a silken frock, it rustles
-like the trees--
-But I can’t kiss her ’cos I spoils the bows.
-
-And tho’ I love her pretty dresses, ’cos she
-looks so grand,
-What I like really best of all to see,
-Is when she’s in the garden, wearing _just_ an
-overall--
-And comes to romp and play about with me.
-
-
-
-THE JOLLY WIND
-
-
-“Hurrah!” says the wind, as he sweeps along,
-“Three cheers for the sun to-day,
-Just look at him shining away in the sky!
-Do come along, children, and play!
-
-I’ll fly your kites on the top of the hill,
-And I’ll spin the old weather-cock round!
-I’ll send your boats sailing away down the
-stream,
-Till bump! they have all come aground!
-
-Come along while I turn the old windmill about,
-And hear how it groans and it creaks;
-Just see how I tweak off your bonnets and caps,
-And hear all the laughter and shrieks!
-
-I’ll make you run faster than ever before,
-I’ll spin you around and about!
-Oh, hurry up, children, and come out of school,
-Hurrah!” says the wind, with a shout!
-
-
-
-
-THE WITCH’S BALLOONS
-
-
-Opposite the nursery sat a woman old and
-brown,
-I should think she was the very oldest person
-in the town,
-She sold balloons to children as they passed
-her corner there,
-She was very cross and horrid and she had a
-nasty stare.
-
-I looked at her one morning, on a very
-windy day,
-And she saw me and she stared at me in such
-a nasty way,
-I felt afraid, and certain sure that she must be
-a witch,
-And keep all sorts of stolen treasures hidden
-in a ditch.
-
-And as I looked at her, and she was staring up
-at me,
-I saw a fairy flying low from out the chestnut
-tree,
-She held a little knife, and oh, she cut the
-strings right through,
-That held the big balloons together, then away
-she flew!
-
-And off went all the purple ones and off went
-all the pink,
-A-flying in the air as high as ever you could
-think,
-Around the chimney pots, and right away up
-in the sky,
-Until they bumped into the clouds, a-sailing
-slowly by.
-
-And then I looked to see what that old woman
-had to say,
-But there wasn’t any sign of her, she’d
-vanished right away,
-She _must_ have been a wicked witch, and by
-the fairies slain,
-For tho’ I’ve looked each morning, she has
-_never_ come again.
-
-
-
-
-FAIRY MUSIC
-
-
-I found a little fairy flute
-Beneath a harebell blue;
-I sat me down upon the moss
-And blew a note or two.
-
-And as I blew the rabbits came
-Around me in the sun,
-And little mice and velvet moles
-Came creeping, one by one.
-
-A swallow perched upon my head,
-A robin on my thumb,
-The thrushes sang in tune with me,
-The bees began to hum.
-
-I loved to see them all around
-And wished they’d always stay,
-When down a little fairy flew
-And _snatched_ my flute away!
-
-And then the swallow fluttered off,
-And gone were all the bees,
-The rabbits ran, and I was left
-Alone among the trees!
-
-
-
-
-THE LITTLE FOLK ON THE HILL
-
-
-Right on the top of the Feraling Hill
-There’s a queer little seat made of stone,
-And sometimes I climb up the heathery slope.
-And sit in the wind all alone.
-
-Nobody knows why the little seat’s there,
-(It’s almost too tiny for me)
-But I love to squeeze into it on a clear day,
-And look over the hills to the sea.
-
-Sometimes I’ve sat there and heard funny
-sounds
-And voices, and tho’ I’ve kept still,
-I’ve only seen one of the queer Little Folk
-That I _know_ live inside of the hill.
-
-For once I came quietly up to the stone--
-And on it sat one of the Folk!
-He was looking across all the hills to the sea,
-But he vanished away when I spoke.
-
-And that’s how _I_ know why the little seat’s
-there,
-And why it’s small even for me;
-The Folk put it there in the wind, for _they love_
-To look over the hills to the sea.
-
-
-
-
-THE MOON AT TEA-TIME
-
-
-I was playing in the meadow, where there’s
-not a single tree,
-I was throwing bits of sorrel at a fat old
-bumble-bee,
-And then--I just looked up to see the clouds
-go sailing by--
-And oh, I saw the _moon_, in daytime! and I
-_can’t_ think why!
-
-Such funny things keep happ’ning, and
-they’ve happened all to-day,
-First, I found a weeny mouse, all cuddled in
-the hay,
-Then at home we’ve got a baby, from _I_ don’t
-know where!
-And now I find the moon at _tea-time_, sitting in
-the air!
-
-I’m sure it’s wrong, because the Bible says it’s
-meant for night,
-And look, it hides behind the clouds--it knows
-it isn’t right.
-Now there it comes! Oh, silly moon, you make
-the sun look fine,
-’Cos bumping up against the clouds has
-rubbed off all _your_ shine!
-
-
-
-
-APRIL
-
-
-Oh, April brings the cuckoo-bird, and April
-brings the rain,
-April hangs a hundred sunny raindrops in the
-lane,
-She can wash the sky with woolly clouds of
-purest white,
-And gaily dress it up in rainbows, curving out
-of sight.
-
-Oh, April hangs the chestnut trees with spires
-of white and pink,
-And kisses all the primroses along the river’s
-brink,
-She peeps into the tiny nests where eggs are
-hidden well,
-And searches out the purple violets growing in
-the dell.
-
-Oh, April swings the apple blossom, sweet
-against the sky
-And chases all the bob-tail rabbits scuttling
-gaily by,
-She dances with the meadow cowslips, drooping
-heads of gold,
-Oh, April is the sweetest month that any year
-can hold!
-
-
-
-
-THE SILENT POOL
-
-
-Away in the wood where it’s dark,
-There’s a pool that is purplish green,
-With whispering rushes around,
-That murmur of things they have seen.
-
-I once lay and listened all night,
-And heard why the pool lies alone;
-Not even a fairy goes near
-And only the sad rushes moan.
-
-I heard how there once lived a witch,
-Who weaved wicked spells night and day,
-And used the pool’s purplish deeps
-For things which I wouldn’t dare say.
-
-Then one day she vanished and went,
-And never was seen any more,
-But silent and still lay the pool,
-And darker than ever before.
-
-No fairy knows what the pool holds,
-And none guesses what secrets lie
-Hid safely away in its deeps,
-But shuddering, all pass it by.
-
-Take heed when you go through the wood,
-And pass where the pool lies alone--
-Not even a fairy goes near,
-And only the sad rushes moan!
-
-
-
-
-THIS AFTERNOON
-
-
-This afternoon is very hot,
-And all the sky is blue,
-The busy bees are humming loud,
-They have a lot to do.
-
-I want to go out in the fields
-Where all the daisies grow,
-And watch the little breezes bend
-The grasses to and fro.
-I want to watch the butterflies,
-And hear the cuckoo call,
-I’d cuckoo back to see if he
-Would answer me at all.
-
-The buttercups are shaking gold
-Upon the dry brown earth,
-And shiny beetles race along
-The ground, for all they’re worth.
-I want to lie down on the grass
-And look up at the sky,
-It looks so queer and far away
-And wonderfully high.
-
-It’s such a lovely afternoon,
-With lovely things to see;
-Oh, _why_ must I in my best frock
-Be taken out to tea?
-
-
-
-
-THE “FEELING”
-
-
-Inside of me there’s a Feeling lives,
-That wakes when I see a rose,
-Or the snow, or sunshine, or daisy fields;
-It wakes for a time--and then goes.
-
-When I suddenly see the rainbow shine
-Right over the sky so wide,
-And the sunshine gleams thro’ the pouring rain,
-I get that “Feeling” inside.
-
-When I get out of bed on a winter’s morn,
-And look thro’ my window pane,
-And find the snow on the trees and fields,
-I get the Feeling again.
-
-When a great big wave comes sweeping up
-On a stormy and windy tide,
-And crashes against the rocks in spray,
-I get the Feeling inside.
-
-I once told Nannie just how I felt,
-But I’m not going to tell her again.
-_She_ didn’t know at all what I meant,
-She called my Feeling a _pain!_
-
-
-
-
-THE NAUGHTY GNOME
-
-
-A little gnome in Fairyland
-Once found a pot of glue,
-And he of course began to think
-What mischief he could do!
-
-He smeared the toadstools, one and all,
-Whereon the fairies sat,
-And oh, how cross they were to find
-A naughty trick like that!
-
-He dropped some glue upon the grass,
-To catch the fairies’ feet,
-When there came by the Fairy King
-And Queen with all their suite.
-
-The King walked straight upon the glue
-And found he couldn’t stir!
-Then came the frightened gnome, and cried,
-“Oh, please have mercy, Sir!
-
-I didn’t mean to catch _your_ feet
-Within my sticky glue,
-But please forgive me and I’ll find
-Some better thing to do!”
-
-“I’ll pardon you,” the King replied,
-“But harken what I say,
-Go, use your glue on _chestnut_ buds,
-To keep the frost away.”
-
-So in the chestnuts every spring
-The gnome works all day long,
-And if you touch a bud, you’ll find
-His glue is _very_ strong!
-
-
-
-
-SIX O’CLOCK
-
-
-We always wake at six o’clock,
-When Nurse is still asleep;
-She’s hidden under all the clothes,
-Her breathes are loud and deep.
-
-We mustn’t talk till seven strikes,
-And so we just turn round
-And hear the milk-carts going by,
-They have a tinny sound.
-
-I look up at the ceiling, and
-I count the cracks I see,
-And all the flies upon the wall;
-Once there were _twenty-three!_
-
-Teddie pulls out feathers from
-The eiderdown, and blows
-With all his might, to make them drop
-On top of Nurse’s nose.
-
-I breathe on all the brassy nobs
-That feel so very cold;
-They go quite dull till Teddie rubs,
-And makes them shine like gold.
-
-And now I’ve told you all these things,
-If you wake early, too,
-And mustn’t talk till seven strikes,
-_You’ll_ know just what to do.
-
-
-
-
-THE IMP’S MISTAKE
-
-
-As Anna slept beside the fire
-An imp as black as soot
-Came down the chimney in a bound,
-And landed by her foot!
-
-He looked at her black shining shoe,
-A frown came on his face,
-He thought it was a piece of coal
-A-tumbled from its place!
-
-And so he started tugging hard
-To put it back again
-Upon the fire, when Anna woke
-And gave a cry of pain!
-
-“You naughty little imp,” she cried,
-“Just leave my foot alone!”
-And in a trice the imp had jumped
-And up the chimney flown!
-
-So when you’re sitting by the fire,
-It’s better, on the whole,
-To keep awake, in case that imp
-Should think _your_ shoes are coal!
-
-
-
-
-PUT TO BED
-
-
-The sun is shining hot and bright,
-The gardener’s mowing grass,
-He’s doing it with all his might,
-I hear his footsteps pass.
-
-Nurse put me here in bed alone
-Because I’ve not been good;
-I think her heart is hard as stone--
-I didn’t think she would.
-
-I haven’t been so very bad,
-I’ll tell you what I’ve done.
-I took a pencil that I had,
-A lovely orange one.
-
-I drew a splendid pattern round
-The dining room and hall,
-And trees that grew up from the ground,
-Right up the nursery wall.
-
-I’d started on a giant’s head,
-I know just how they’re made,
-When Nurse came in, so cross and red,
-It made me feel afraid.
-
-I never had behaved, she said,
-So wickedly before;
-She made me go upstairs to bed,
-And then she banged the door.
-
-She took my toys and books and ball,
-And all the bricks I’d built;
-There’s nothing here that’s nice at all,
-’Cept Grannie’s patchwork quilt!
-
-
-
-
-THE MERRY BREEZE
-
-
-Round about the orchard went the merry
-little breeze,
-Playing with the butterflies and teasing all
-the bees,
-Sending showers of apple-blossom down upon
-the ground,
-And spilling half the dew-drops from the
-grasses all around.
-
-He ruffled up the feathers of the ducks a-sailing
-by,
-And hustled all the lazy clods that floated in
-the sky,
-He swung the beeches to and fro, then darted
-off again
-To dry the shiny puddles scattered down along
-the lane.
-
-The chimney smoke he twisted in the queerest
-kind of way,
-Until at last the little breeze was weary of his
-play;
-He crept back to the orchard, where the
-daffodillies peep,
-And there it was I found him lying, curled up
-fast asleep!
-
-
-
-
-AN ACCIDENT
-
-
-We’ve a little summer house
-With a pointed top,
-And on it, watching us at play,
-The fairies often stop.
-
-But now we’ve done a dreadful thing,
-And frightened them away,
-Because, by accident, our ball
-Struck two of them to-day.
-
-It bounced upon the summer house,
-And hurt the fairies there;
-They flew away with cries of pain,
-And said it wasn’t fair.
-
-Each day we watch our summer house
-And watch the pointed top.
-But now, tho’ fairies fly around,
-They _never_ come to stop.
-
-
-
-
-A HAPPY ENDING
-
-
-I found a ship upon the sea,
-All ready waiting there for me,
-So in I jumped and off we sped,
-To gleaming waters far ahead.
-
-But soon a wind came moaning by
-And clouds filled all the sunny sky,
-The sea was speckled with the rain,
-And my ship rolled and rolled again.
-
-The waves crashed grandly on the deck.
-The sails dripped rain-drops down my neck,
-Then straight ahead, I spied a rock,
-And braced myself to meet the shock--
-
-Crash! we struck, and there we stayed,
-While rain and storm around us played;
-The ship at once began to fill,
-And down and down we sank--until
-
-I yelled in fear and clutched the side,
-Half-drowning in the racing tide.
-And just as mast and rigging broke,
-I found myself in bed--and WOKE!
-
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-<h2>CHILD WHISPERS</h2>
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-<h4>By</h4>
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-<h3>ENID BLYTON</h3>
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-<h4>LONDON</h4>
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-<h4>J. SAVILLE &amp; CO. LIMITED</h4>
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-<h5>EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS,</h5>
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-<h4>5, GOWER STREET, W.C.I</h4>
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-<h5>1923</h5>
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-<hr class="r5" />
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-<h5>DEDICATED TO FOUR LITTLE BROTHERS</h5>
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-<h4>DAVID, BRIAN, PETER<br />
-AND JOHN</h4>
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-<hr class="r5" />
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-<h4>CONTENTS</h4>
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-<p><a href="#PREFACE">Preface</a><br />
-<a href="#ROSAMUNDA">Rosamunda</a><br />
-<a href="#DISAPPOINTMENT">Disappointment</a><br />
-<a href="#ON_STRIKE">On Strike</a><br />
-<a href="#FAIRY_SIGHT">Fairy Sight</a><br />
-<a href="#A_FAIRY_NECKLACE">A Fairy Necklace</a><br />
-<a href="#PAYING_A_CALL">Paying a Call</a><br />
-<a href="#BEFORE_BREAKFAST">Before Breakfast</a><br />
-<a href="#GOBLINS">Goblins</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_FAIRYS_BEDTIME">The Fairy’s Bedtime</a><br />
-<a href="#POPPIES">Poppies</a><br />
-<a href="#A_QUEER_BUTTERFLY">A Queer Butterfly</a><br />
-<a href="#LOVELY_FROCKS">Lovely Frocks</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_JOLLY_WIND">The Jolly Wind</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_WITCHS_BALLOONS">The Witch’s Balloons</a><br />
-<a href="#FAIRY_MUSIC">Fairy Music</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_LITTLE_FOLK_ON_THE_HILL">The Little Folk on the Hill</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_MOON_AT_TEA-TIME">The Moon at Tea-Time</a><br />
-<a href="#APRIL">April</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_SILENT_POOL">The Silent Pool</a><br />
-<a href="#THIS_AFTERNOON">This Afternoon</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_FEELING">The “Feeling”</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_NAUGHTY_GNOME">The Naughty Gnome</a><br />
-<a href="#SIX_OCLOCK">Six o’clock</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_IMPS_MISTAKE">The Imp’s Mistake</a><br />
-<a href="#PUT_TO_BED">Put to Bed</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_MERRY_BREEZE">The Merry Breeze</a><br />
-<a href="#AN_ACCIDENT">An Accident</a><br />
-<a href="#A_HAPPY_ENDING">A Happy Ending</a></p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h4><a id="PREFACE">PREFACE</a></h4>
-
-<p>The children of nowadays are different in
-many of their likes and dislikes, from the
-children of ten years ago. This change of
-attitude is noticeable as much in the world of
-children’s poetry as it is in other things.</p>
-
-<p>In my experience of teaching I have found
-the children delight in two distinct types of
-verses. These are the humorous type and the
-imaginative poetical type&mdash;but the humour
-must be from the child’s point of view and not
-from the “grown-up’s”&mdash;a very different
-thing. And the imagination in the second
-type of poem must be clear and whimsical,
-otherwise the appeal fails and the child does
-not respond.</p>
-
-<p>As I found a lack of suitable poems of the
-types I wanted, I began to write them myself
-for the children under my supervision, taking,
-in many cases, the ideas, humorous or whimsical,
-of the children themselves, as the theme
-of the poems. Finding them to be successful,
-I continued, until the suggestion was made to
-me that many children, other than those in
-my own school, might enjoy hearing and
-learning the poems. Accordingly this collection
-of verses is put forward in the hope that
-it will be a source of sincere enjoyment to the
-little people of the world.</p>
-
-<p style="margin-left: 60%;">ENID BLYTON.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="r5" />
-
-<h4><a id="ROSAMUNDA">ROSAMUNDA</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">In the garden very early<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Rosamunda’s walking,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And to her surprise she hears<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Lots of fairies talking.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">She looks around but cannot see<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Where they can be hiding;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Not on any butterfly<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Nor bee, are they a-riding.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">She goes to where the tulips grow<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And finds a sight of wonder,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">For out pop fairy elves and say,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">“Good-morning, Rosamunda!”</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="DISAPPOINTMENT">DISAPPOINTMENT</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Once I found a fairy<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">In my cup of tea.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She was nearly drowned<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And wet as wet could be.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I picked her out and dried her<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And asked her if she’d stay;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">“Oh, no,” she said, “<i>I mustn’t</i>,”<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And off she flew away.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="ON_STRIKE">ON STRIKE</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">My dollies are so naughty,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I’m afraid they’ve gone on strike;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">They won’t let me undress them,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">But just do what they like.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">They say they want a penny<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To spend on Saturday,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And ’less I let them have it,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">They’ll not join in my play.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I can’t let them behave so,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">They’ll never grow up right&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But I know they will be sorry<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">When I don’t kiss them good-night.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="FAIRY_SIGHT">FAIRY SIGHT</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">If you want to see a fairy,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">In the middle of the night,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Wrap the blanket round you,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And shut your eyes up tight.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Say “Akral dafarray!”<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And open your right eye,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And (if you’ve been a good child)<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A fairy flutters by!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="A_FAIRY_NECKLACE">A FAIRY NECKLACE</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The rain had rained all morning,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And then the sun shone fair,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And all the garden glittered<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">With raindrops everywhere!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">There were raindrops on the grasses,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And raindrops on the trees,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And how they shook and shivered,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Like diamonds, in the breeze!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And oh, I saw a fairy<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Come flying right by me;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She shook a score of raindrops,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">From off the hazel tree.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">She slung them on a spider’s thread,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A necklace made of rain!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She clasped them round her little neck,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And off she flew again!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="PAYING_A_CALL">PAYING A CALL</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I put on my hat with the band of blue,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And my frock with the frilly lace,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I took my sunshade, and held it up,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To keep the sun off my face.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I thought I’d go calling like Mother does,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And have pretty cakes for tea,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And sit on the edge of a chair and talk<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">With a tea-cup on my knee.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I walked all along the sunny road,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Till I came to Mrs. Leroy’s.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I climbed the steps, and I rang the bell&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">It made such a jangley noise.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And then I suddenly felt afraid,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And couldn’t think what I would say<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">When they opened the door&mdash;so I jumped<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">the steps,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I ran back home all the way.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Nurse saw me coining in my best frock,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And oh, how she scolded me!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And that’s why I’m wearing an overall now,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And not having jam for tea.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="BEFORE_BREAKFAST">BEFORE BREAKFAST</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I go round the garden early, when the grass is<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">bright with dew,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I have to put goloshes on my feet.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I’ll tell you all I do there, right away from<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">people’s view,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">When the world is half-awake and very<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">sweet.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I shake the lady hollyhocks to make the bees<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">fly out,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I see how much they’ve grown since<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">yesterday.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I pop the fattest fuchsia buds, if gardener’s<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">not about,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I blow the dandelion clocks away.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I smell the honeysuckle and the lavender as<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">well,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I take the rose-leaves fallen down beyond;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">They’re pink and white and beautiful, just like<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">a fairy shell,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I save them up for sailing on the pond.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I stand upon the mossy wall, and smell the<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">new mown hay,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I feel the wind that blows the clouds<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">along;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I think there never, <i>never</i> could be such a<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">lovely day&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And then, I hear that horrid breakfast gong!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="GOBLINS">GOBLINS</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">When I am cross as I can be, and nothing’s<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">ever right,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Then Mummy says there’s naughty goblins,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">hiding out of sight,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Who try to make me do what’s wrong, and try<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">to make me bad,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">They like me to forget things, and make other<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">people sad.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I’ve never found them anywhere, I don’t know<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">where to look,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I’ve only seen them in the pages of my<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">picture-book,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But oh, I’m <i>sure</i> they’re all about in<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">everybody’s house,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Little creepy-crawley things, as quiet as a<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">mouse.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">When cook forgets to put the sugar in the<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Sunday cake,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And gardener breaks the barrow-wheel, and<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">loses Daddie’s rake,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And Nurse is very cross indeed, and won’t let<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">me go out,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I always know those nasty little goblins are<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">about.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I play next-door with Peter, and there’s<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">goblins even there,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Altho’ it’s such a lovely house, I can’t think<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">how they dare,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But often Peter’s Daddie is as grumpy as can<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">be,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">All over nothing, so the goblins must be there,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">you see.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Whenever things go very wrong, I hide myself<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">away,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">To try and see those goblins, and I’m sure I<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">shall some day.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And if they bother you at all, you try and<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">catch them, too,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And <i>will</i> you save them up for me to look at,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">if you do?</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_FAIRYS_BEDTIME">THE FAIRY’S BEDTIME</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Just before they go to bed,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The fairy babes are told<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">To sit upon their toadstools, and<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To be as good as gold.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">So down they sit, all in a ring,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">It’s supper-time, they know,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">For look, their little acorn cups<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Are standing in a row.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">A fairy fills the little cups,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">With dew and honey sweet<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And gives one to each little babe<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">With something nice to eat.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Then off into the trees they fly<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And curl themselves up tight<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Inside a leaf that’s soft and warm,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And there they sleep all night.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="POPPIES">POPPIES</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Up the lane behind our house<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A little hill you climb,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And at the top on either side<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">There is in Summer time&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">A cornfield waving in the wind,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Where poppies shake their head<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And peep at you between the corn,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A glowing dancing red&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I’ll tell you what I did one day<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">When nurse was cross with me,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And pulled my hair back in a plait,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">As tight as tight could be&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I crept up to the swaying corn<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And in the poppies there<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I sat down by myself, and then<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I undid all my hair!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I picked some gleaming poppies red,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The biggest I could find,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I wound them tightly in my curls,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And some hung down behind.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I walked about so very grand<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Till it began to rain,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">When one by one the poppies fell,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I went home again.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="A_QUEER_BUTTERFLY">A QUEER BUTTERFLY</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I caught a lovely butterfly,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">In Marianna’s net.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">It was the sweetest blue and gold,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The prettiest I’d seen yet.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">But Marianna came and said<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The butterfly should be<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Not mine, but <i>hers</i>, because the net<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Belonged to her, not me.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">We quarrelled hard, and didn’t stop,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Until my frock was torn,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And then she pointed down to where<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The net lay, on the lawn.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The butterfly was creeping out<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And spread its wings of blue,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And then <i>stood up</i>, just fancy that!<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">You’d hardly think it true!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">We saw then what it really was,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A fairy, come to play,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And all because we quarrelled so,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">She fluttered right away.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="LOVELY_FROCKS">LOVELY FROCKS</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">In my Mummy’s wardrobe, there are lots of<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">lovely frocks,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I know because I’ve seen them hanging<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">there;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">There’s purple, and there’s orange, and a frilly<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">one of blue,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And a yellow that is shiny like her hair.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The satin frocks make Mummy look just like a<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">fairy Queen&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">But she can’t cuddle me at all in those&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And when she wears a silken frock, it rustles<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">like the trees&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">But I can’t kiss her ’cos I spoils the bows.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And tho’ I love her pretty dresses, ’cos she<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">looks so grand,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">What I like really best of all to see,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Is when she’s in the garden, wearing <i>just</i> an<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">overall&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And comes to romp and play about with me.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_JOLLY_WIND">THE JOLLY WIND</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">“Hurrah!” says the wind, as he sweeps along,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">“Three cheers for the sun to-day,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Just look at him shining away in the sky!<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Do come along, children, and play!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I’ll fly your kites on the top of the hill,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I’ll spin the old weather-cock round!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I’ll send your boats sailing away down the<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">stream,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Till bump! they have all come aground!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Come along while I turn the old windmill about,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And hear how it groans and it creaks;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Just see how I tweak off your bonnets and caps,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And hear all the laughter and shrieks!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I’ll make you run faster than ever before,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I’ll spin you around and about!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Oh, hurry up, children, and come out of school,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Hurrah!” says the wind, with a shout!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_WITCHS_BALLOONS">THE WITCH’S BALLOONS</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Opposite the nursery sat a woman old and<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">brown,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I should think she was the very oldest person<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">in the town,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She sold balloons to children as they passed<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">her corner there,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She was very cross and horrid and she had a<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">nasty stare.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I looked at her one morning, on a very<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">windy day,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And she saw me and she stared at me in such<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">a nasty way,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I felt afraid, and certain sure that she must be<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">a witch,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And keep all sorts of stolen treasures hidden<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">in a ditch.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And as I looked at her, and she was staring up<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">at me,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I saw a fairy flying low from out the chestnut<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">tree,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She held a little knife, and oh, she cut the<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">strings right through,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">That held the big balloons together, then away<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">she flew!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And off went all the purple ones and off went<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">all the pink,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">A-flying in the air as high as ever you could<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">think,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Around the chimney pots, and right away up<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">in the sky,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Until they bumped into the clouds, a-sailing<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">slowly by.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And then I looked to see what that old woman<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">had to say,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But there wasn’t any sign of her, she’d<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">vanished right away,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She <i>must</i> have been a wicked witch, and by<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the fairies slain,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">For tho’ I’ve looked each morning, she has<br /></span>
-<span class="i2"><i>never</i> come again.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="FAIRY_MUSIC">FAIRY MUSIC</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I found a little fairy flute<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Beneath a harebell blue;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I sat me down upon the moss<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And blew a note or two.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And as I blew the rabbits came<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Around me in the sun,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And little mice and velvet moles<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Came creeping, one by one.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">A swallow perched upon my head,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A robin on my thumb,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The thrushes sang in tune with me,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The bees began to hum.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I loved to see them all around<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And wished they’d always stay,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">When down a little fairy flew<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And <i>snatched</i> my flute away!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And then the swallow fluttered off,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And gone were all the bees,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The rabbits ran, and I was left<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Alone among the trees!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_LITTLE_FOLK_ON_THE_HILL">THE LITTLE FOLK ON THE HILL</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Right on the top of the Feraling Hill<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">There’s a queer little seat made of stone,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And sometimes I climb up the heathery slope.<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And sit in the wind all alone.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Nobody knows why the little seat’s there,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">(It’s almost too tiny for me)<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But I love to squeeze into it on a clear day,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And look over the hills to the sea.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Sometimes I’ve sat there and heard funny<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">sounds<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And voices, and tho’ I’ve kept still,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I’ve only seen one of the queer Little Folk<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">That I <i>know</i> live inside of the hill.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">For once I came quietly up to the stone&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And on it sat one of the Folk!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">He was looking across all the hills to the sea,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">But he vanished away when I spoke.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And that’s how <i>I</i> know why the little seat’s<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">there,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And why it’s small even for me;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The Folk put it there in the wind, for <i>they love</i><br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To look over the hills to the sea.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_MOON_AT_TEA-TIME">THE MOON AT TEA-TIME</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I was playing in the meadow, where there’s<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">not a single tree,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I was throwing bits of sorrel at a fat old<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">bumble-bee,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And then&mdash;I just looked up to see the clouds<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">go sailing by&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And oh, I saw the <i>moon</i>, in daytime! and I<br /></span>
-<span class="i2"><i>can’t</i> think why!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Such funny things keep happ’ning, and<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">they’ve happened all to-day,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">First, I found a weeny mouse, all cuddled in<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the hay,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Then at home we’ve got a baby, from <i>I</i> don’t<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">know where!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And now I find the moon at <i>tea-time</i>, sitting in<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the air!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I’m sure it’s wrong, because the Bible says it’s<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">meant for night,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And look, it hides behind the clouds&mdash;it knows<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">it isn’t right.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Now there it comes! Oh, silly moon, you make<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the sun look fine,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">’Cos bumping up against the clouds has<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">rubbed off all <i>your</i> shine!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="APRIL">APRIL</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Oh, April brings the cuckoo-bird, and April<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">brings the rain,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">April hangs a hundred sunny raindrops in the<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">lane,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She can wash the sky with woolly clouds of<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">purest white,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And gaily dress it up in rainbows, curving out<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">of sight.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Oh, April hangs the chestnut trees with spires<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">of white and pink,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And kisses all the primroses along the river’s<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">brink,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She peeps into the tiny nests where eggs are<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">hidden well,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And searches out the purple violets growing in<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the dell.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Oh, April swings the apple blossom, sweet<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">against the sky<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And chases all the bob-tail rabbits scuttling<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">gaily by,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She dances with the meadow cowslips, drooping<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">heads of gold,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Oh, April is the sweetest month that any year<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">can hold!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_SILENT_POOL">THE SILENT POOL</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Away in the wood where it’s dark,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">There’s a pool that is purplish green,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">With whispering rushes around,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">That murmur of things they have seen.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I once lay and listened all night,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And heard why the pool lies alone;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Not even a fairy goes near<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And only the sad rushes moan.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I heard how there once lived a witch,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Who weaved wicked spells night and day,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And used the pool’s purplish deeps<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">For things which I wouldn’t dare say.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Then one day she vanished and went,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And never was seen any more,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But silent and still lay the pool,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And darker than ever before.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">No fairy knows what the pool holds,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And none guesses what secrets lie<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Hid safely away in its deeps,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">But shuddering, all pass it by.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Take heed when you go through the wood,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And pass where the pool lies alone&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Not even a fairy goes near,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And only the sad rushes moan!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THIS_AFTERNOON">THIS AFTERNOON</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">This afternoon is very hot,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And all the sky is blue,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The busy bees are humming loud,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">They have a lot to do.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I want to go out in the fields<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Where all the daisies grow,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And watch the little breezes bend<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The grasses to and fro.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I want to watch the butterflies,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And hear the cuckoo call,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I’d cuckoo back to see if he<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Would answer me at all.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The buttercups are shaking gold<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Upon the dry brown earth,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And shiny beetles race along<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The ground, for all they’re worth.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I want to lie down on the grass<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And look up at the sky,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">It looks so queer and far away<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And wonderfully high.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">It’s such a lovely afternoon,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">With lovely things to see;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Oh, <i>why</i> must I in my best frock<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Be taken out to tea?</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_FEELING">THE “FEELING”</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Inside of me there’s a Feeling lives,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">That wakes when I see a rose,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Or the snow, or sunshine, or daisy fields;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">It wakes for a time&mdash;and then goes.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">When I suddenly see the rainbow shine<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Right over the sky so wide,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And the sunshine gleams thro’ the pouring rain,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I get that “Feeling” inside.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">When I get out of bed on a winter’s morn,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And look thro’ my window pane,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And find the snow on the trees and fields,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I get the Feeling again.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">When a great big wave comes sweeping up<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">On a stormy and windy tide,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And crashes against the rocks in spray,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I get the Feeling inside.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I once told Nannie just how I felt,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">But I’m not going to tell her again.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0"><i>She</i> didn’t know at all what I meant,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">She called my Feeling a <i>pain!</i></span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_NAUGHTY_GNOME">THE NAUGHTY GNOME</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">A little gnome in Fairyland<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Once found a pot of glue,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And he of course began to think<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">What mischief he could do!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">He smeared the toadstools, one and all,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Whereon the fairies sat,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And oh, how cross they were to find<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A naughty trick like that!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">He dropped some glue upon the grass,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To catch the fairies’ feet,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">When there came by the Fairy King<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And Queen with all their suite.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The King walked straight upon the glue<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And found he couldn’t stir!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Then came the frightened gnome, and cried,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">“Oh, please have mercy, Sir!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I didn’t mean to catch <i>your</i> feet<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Within my sticky glue,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But please forgive me and I’ll find<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Some better thing to do!”<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">“I’ll pardon you,” the King replied,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">“But harken what I say,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Go, use your glue on <i>chestnut</i> buds,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To keep the frost away.”<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">So in the chestnuts every spring<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The gnome works all day long,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And if you touch a bud, you’ll find<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">His glue is <i>very</i> strong!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="SIX_OCLOCK">SIX O’CLOCK</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">We always wake at six o’clock,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">When Nurse is still asleep;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She’s hidden under all the clothes,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Her breathes are loud and deep.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">We mustn’t talk till seven strikes,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And so we just turn round<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And hear the milk-carts going by,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">They have a tinny sound.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I look up at the ceiling, and<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I count the cracks I see,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And all the flies upon the wall;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Once there were <i>twenty-three!</i><br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Teddie pulls out feathers from<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The eiderdown, and blows<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">With all his might, to make them drop<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">On top of Nurse’s nose.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I breathe on all the brassy nobs<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">That feel so very cold;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">They go quite dull till Teddie rubs,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And makes them shine like gold.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And now I’ve told you all these things,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">If you wake early, too,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And mustn’t talk till seven strikes,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2"><i>You’ll</i> know just what to do.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_IMPS_MISTAKE">THE IMP’S MISTAKE</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">As Anna slept beside the fire<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">An imp as black as soot<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Came down the chimney in a bound,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And landed by her foot!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">He looked at her black shining shoe,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A frown came on his face,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">He thought it was a piece of coal<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A-tumbled from its place!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And so he started tugging hard<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To put it back again<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Upon the fire, when Anna woke<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And gave a cry of pain!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">“You naughty little imp,” she cried,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">“Just leave my foot alone!”<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And in a trice the imp had jumped<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And up the chimney flown!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">So when you’re sitting by the fire,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">It’s better, on the whole,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">To keep awake, in case that imp<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Should think <i>your</i> shoes are coal!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="PUT_TO_BED">PUT TO BED</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The sun is shining hot and bright,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The gardener’s mowing grass,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">He’s doing it with all his might,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I hear his footsteps pass.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Nurse put me here in bed alone<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Because I’ve not been good;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I think her heart is hard as stone&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I didn’t think she would.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I haven’t been so very bad,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I’ll tell you what I’ve done.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I took a pencil that I had,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A lovely orange one.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I drew a splendid pattern round<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The dining room and hall,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And trees that grew up from the ground,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Right up the nursery wall.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I’d started on a giant’s head,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I know just how they’re made,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">When Nurse came in, so cross and red,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">It made me feel afraid.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I never had behaved, she said,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">So wickedly before;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She made me go upstairs to bed,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And then she banged the door.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">She took my toys and books and ball,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And all the bricks I’d built;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">There’s nothing here that’s nice at all,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">’Cept Grannie’s patchwork quilt!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_MERRY_BREEZE">THE MERRY BREEZE</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Round about the orchard went the merry<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">little breeze,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Playing with the butterflies and teasing all<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the bees,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Sending showers of apple-blossom down upon<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the ground,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And spilling half the dew-drops from the<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">grasses all around.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">He ruffled up the feathers of the ducks a-sailing<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">by,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And hustled all the lazy clods that floated in<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the sky,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">He swung the beeches to and fro, then darted<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">off again<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">To dry the shiny puddles scattered down along<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the lane.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The chimney smoke he twisted in the queerest<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">kind of way,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Until at last the little breeze was weary of his<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">play;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">He crept back to the orchard, where the<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">daffodillies peep,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And there it was I found him lying, curled up<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">fast asleep!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="AN_ACCIDENT">AN ACCIDENT</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">We’ve a little summer house<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">With a pointed top,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And on it, watching us at play,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The fairies often stop.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">But now we’ve done a dreadful thing,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And frightened them away,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Because, by accident, our ball<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Struck two of them to-day.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">It bounced upon the summer house,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And hurt the fairies there;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">They flew away with cries of pain,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And said it wasn’t fair.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Each day we watch our summer house<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And watch the pointed top.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But now, tho’ fairies fly around,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">They <i>never</i> come to stop.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="A_HAPPY_ENDING">A HAPPY ENDING</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I found a ship upon the sea,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">All ready waiting there for me,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">So in I jumped and off we sped,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">To gleaming waters far ahead.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">But soon a wind came moaning by<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And clouds filled all the sunny sky,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The sea was speckled with the rain,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And my ship rolled and rolled again.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The waves crashed grandly on the deck.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The sails dripped rain-drops down my neck,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Then straight ahead, I spied a rock,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And braced myself to meet the shock&mdash;<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Crash! we struck, and there we stayed,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">While rain and storm around us played;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The ship at once began to fill,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And down and down we sank&mdash;until<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I yelled in fear and clutched the side,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Half-drowning in the racing tide.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And just as mast and rigging broke,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I found myself in bed&mdash;and WOKE!</span></div></div>
-</div>
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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of Child Whispers, by Enid Blyton
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-Title: Child Whispers
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-CHILD WHISPERS
-
-By
-
-ENID BLYTON
-
-LONDON
-
-J. SAVILLE & CO. LIMITED
-
-EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS,
-
-5, GOWER STREET, W.C.I
-
-1923
-
-
-
-
-DEDICATED TO FOUR LITTLE BROTHERS
-
-DAVID, BRIAN, PETER
-AND JOHN
-
-
-
-
-CONTENTS
-
-Preface
-Rosamunda
-Disappointment
-On Strike
-Fairy Sight
-A Fairy Necklace
-Paying a Call
-Before Breakfast
-Goblins
-The Fairy's Bedtime
-Poppies
-A Queer Butterfly
-Lovely Frocks
-The Jolly Wind
-The Witch's Balloons
-Fairy Music
-The Little Folk on the Hill
-The Moon at Tea-Time
-April
-The Silent Pool
-This Afternoon
-The "Feeling"
-The Naughty Gnome
-Six o'clock
-The Imp's Mistake
-Put to Bed
-The Merry Breeze
-An Accident
-A Happy Ending
-
-
-
-
-PREFACE
-
-
-The children of nowadays are different in
-many of their likes and dislikes, from the
-children of ten years ago. This change of
-attitude is noticeable as much in the world of
-children's poetry as it is in other things.
-
-In my experience of teaching I have found
-the children delight in two distinct types of
-verses. These are the humorous type and the
-imaginative poetical type--but the humour
-must be from the child's point of view and not
-from the "grown-up's"--a very different
-thing. And the imagination in the second
-type of poem must be clear and whimsical,
-otherwise the appeal fails and the child does
-not respond.
-
-As I found a lack of suitable poems of the
-types I wanted, I began to write them myself
-for the children under my supervision, taking,
-in many cases, the ideas, humorous or whimsical,
-of the children themselves, as the theme
-of the poems. Finding them to be successful,
-I continued, until the suggestion was made to
-me that many children, other than those in
-my own school, might enjoy hearing and
-learning the poems. Accordingly this collection
-of verses is put forward in the hope that
-it will be a source of sincere enjoyment to the
-little people of the world.
-
-
-ENID BLYTON.
-
-
-
-
-ROSAMUNDA
-
-
-In the garden very early
-Rosamunda's walking,
-And to her surprise she hears
-Lots of fairies talking.
-
-She looks around but cannot see
-Where they can be hiding;
-Not on any butterfly
-Nor bee, are they a-riding.
-
-She goes to where the tulips grow
-And finds a sight of wonder,
-For out pop fairy elves and say,
-"Good-morning, Rosamunda!"
-
-
-
-
-DISAPPOINTMENT
-
-
-Once I found a fairy
-In my cup of tea.
-She was nearly drowned
-And wet as wet could be.
-
-I picked her out and dried her
-And asked her if she'd stay;
-"Oh, no," she said, "_I mustn't_,"
-And off she flew away.
-
-
-
-
-ON STRIKE
-
-
-My dollies are so naughty,
-I'm afraid they've gone on strike;
-They won't let me undress them,
-But just do what they like.
-
-They say they want a penny
-To spend on Saturday,
-And 'less I let them have it,
-They'll not join in my play.
-
-I can't let them behave so,
-They'll never grow up right--
-But I know they will be sorry
-When I don't kiss them good-night.
-
-
-
-
-FAIRY SIGHT
-
-
-If you want to see a fairy,
-In the middle of the night,
-Wrap the blanket round you,
-And shut your eyes up tight.
-Say "Akral dafarray!"
-And open your right eye,
-And (if you've been a good child)
-A fairy flutters by!
-
-
-
-
-A FAIRY NECKLACE
-
-
-The rain had rained all morning,
-And then the sun shone fair,
-And all the garden glittered
-With raindrops everywhere!
-
-There were raindrops on the grasses,
-And raindrops on the trees,
-And how they shook and shivered,
-Like diamonds, in the breeze!
-
-And oh, I saw a fairy
-Come flying right by me;
-She shook a score of raindrops,
-From off the hazel tree.
-
-She slung them on a spider's thread,
-A necklace made of rain!
-She clasped them round her little neck,
-And off she flew again!
-
-
-
-
-PAYING A CALL
-
-
-I put on my hat with the band of blue,
-And my frock with the frilly lace,
-I took my sunshade, and held it up,
-To keep the sun off my face.
-
-I thought I'd go calling like Mother does,
-And have pretty cakes for tea,
-And sit on the edge of a chair and talk
-With a tea-cup on my knee.
-
-I walked all along the sunny road,
-Till I came to Mrs. Leroy's.
-I climbed the steps, and I rang the bell--
-It made such a jangley noise.
-
-And then I suddenly felt afraid,
-And couldn't think what I would say
-When they opened the door--so I jumped
-the steps,
-And I ran back home all the way.
-
-Nurse saw me coining in my best frock,
-And oh, how she scolded me!
-And that's why I'm wearing an overall now,
-And not having jam for tea.
-
-
-
-
-BEFORE BREAKFAST
-
-
-I go round the garden early, when the grass is
-bright with dew,
-And I have to put goloshes on my feet.
-I'll tell you all I do there, right away from
-people's view,
-When the world is half-awake and very
-sweet.
-
-I shake the lady hollyhocks to make the bees
-fly out,
-And I see how much they've grown since
-yesterday.
-I pop the fattest fuchsia buds, if gardener's
-not about,
-And I blow the dandelion clocks away.
-
-I smell the honeysuckle and the lavender as
-well,
-I take the rose-leaves fallen down beyond;
-They're pink and white and beautiful, just like
-a fairy shell,
-And I save them up for sailing on the pond.
-
-I stand upon the mossy wall, and smell the
-new mown hay,
-And I feel the wind that blows the clouds
-along;
-I think there never, _never_ could be such a
-lovely day--
-And then, I hear that horrid breakfast gong!
-
-
-
-
-GOBLINS
-
-
-When I am cross as I can be, and nothing's
-ever right,
-Then Mummy says there's naughty goblins,
-hiding out of sight,
-Who try to make me do what's wrong, and try
-to make me bad,
-They like me to forget things, and make other
-people sad.
-
-I've never found them anywhere, I don't know
-where to look,
-I've only seen them in the pages of my
-picture-book,
-But oh, I'm _sure_ they're all about in
-everybody's house,
-Little creepy-crawley things, as quiet as a
-mouse.
-
-When cook forgets to put the sugar in the
-Sunday cake,
-And gardener breaks the barrow-wheel, and
-loses Daddie's rake,
-And Nurse is very cross indeed, and won't let
-me go out,
-I always know those nasty little goblins are
-about.
-
-I play next-door with Peter, and there's
-goblins even there,
-Altho' it's such a lovely house, I can't think
-how they dare,
-But often Peter's Daddie is as grumpy as can
-be,
-All over nothing, so the goblins must be there,
-you see.
-
-Whenever things go very wrong, I hide myself
-away,
-To try and see those goblins, and I'm sure I
-shall some day.
-And if they bother you at all, you try and
-catch them, too,
-And _will_ you save them up for me to look at,
-if you do?
-
-
-
-
-THE FAIRY'S BEDTIME
-
-
-Just before they go to bed,
-The fairy babes are told
-To sit upon their toadstools, and
-To be as good as gold.
-
-So down they sit, all in a ring,
-It's supper-time, they know,
-For look, their little acorn cups
-Are standing in a row.
-
-A fairy fills the little cups,
-With dew and honey sweet
-And gives one to each little babe
-With something nice to eat.
-
-Then off into the trees they fly
-And curl themselves up tight
-Inside a leaf that's soft and warm,
-And there they sleep all night.
-
-
-
-
-POPPIES
-
-
-Up the lane behind our house
-A little hill you climb,
-And at the top on either side
-There is in Summer time--
-A cornfield waving in the wind,
-Where poppies shake their head
-And peep at you between the corn,
-A glowing dancing red--
-I'll tell you what I did one day
-When nurse was cross with me,
-And pulled my hair back in a plait,
-As tight as tight could be--
-I crept up to the swaying corn
-And in the poppies there
-I sat down by myself, and then
-I undid all my hair!
-I picked some gleaming poppies red,
-The biggest I could find,
-I wound them tightly in my curls,
-And some hung down behind.
-I walked about so very grand
-Till it began to rain,
-When one by one the poppies fell,
-And I went home again.
-
-
-
-
-A QUEER BUTTERFLY
-
-
-I caught a lovely butterfly,
-In Marianna's net.
-It was the sweetest blue and gold,
-The prettiest I'd seen yet.
-
-But Marianna came and said
-The butterfly should be
-Not mine, but _hers_, because the net
-Belonged to her, not me.
-
-We quarrelled hard, and didn't stop,
-Until my frock was torn,
-And then she pointed down to where
-The net lay, on the lawn.
-
-The butterfly was creeping out
-And spread its wings of blue,
-And then _stood up_, just fancy that!
-You'd hardly think it true!
-
-We saw then what it really was,
-A fairy, come to play,
-And all because we quarrelled so,
-She fluttered right away.
-
-
-
-
-LOVELY FROCKS
-
-
-In my Mummy's wardrobe, there are lots of
-lovely frocks,
-I know because I've seen them hanging
-there;
-There's purple, and there's orange, and a frilly
-one of blue,
-And a yellow that is shiny like her hair.
-
-The satin frocks make Mummy look just like a
-fairy Queen--
-But she can't cuddle me at all in those--
-And when she wears a silken frock, it rustles
-like the trees--
-But I can't kiss her 'cos I spoils the bows.
-
-And tho' I love her pretty dresses, 'cos she
-looks so grand,
-What I like really best of all to see,
-Is when she's in the garden, wearing _just_ an
-overall--
-And comes to romp and play about with me.
-
-
-
-THE JOLLY WIND
-
-
-"Hurrah!" says the wind, as he sweeps along,
-"Three cheers for the sun to-day,
-Just look at him shining away in the sky!
-Do come along, children, and play!
-
-I'll fly your kites on the top of the hill,
-And I'll spin the old weather-cock round!
-I'll send your boats sailing away down the
-stream,
-Till bump! they have all come aground!
-
-Come along while I turn the old windmill about,
-And hear how it groans and it creaks;
-Just see how I tweak off your bonnets and caps,
-And hear all the laughter and shrieks!
-
-I'll make you run faster than ever before,
-I'll spin you around and about!
-Oh, hurry up, children, and come out of school,
-"Hurrah!" says the wind, with a shout!
-
-
-
-
-THE WITCH'S BALLOONS
-
-
-Opposite the nursery sat a woman old and
-brown,
-I should think she was the very oldest person
-in the town,
-She sold balloons to children as they passed
-her corner there,
-She was very cross and horrid and she had a
-nasty stare.
-
-I looked at her one morning, on a very
-windy day,
-And she saw me and she stared at me in such
-a nasty way,
-I felt afraid, and certain sure that she must be
-a witch,
-And keep all sorts of stolen treasures hidden
-in a ditch.
-
-And as I looked at her, and she was staring up
-at me,
-I saw a fairy flying low from out the chestnut
-tree,
-She held a little knife, and oh, she cut the
-strings right through,
-That held the big balloons together, then away
-she flew!
-
-And off went all the purple ones and off went
-all the pink,
-A-flying in the air as high as ever you could
-think,
-Around the chimney pots, and right away up
-in the sky,
-Until they bumped into the clouds, a-sailing
-slowly by.
-
-And then I looked to see what that old woman
-had to say,
-But there wasn't any sign of her, she'd
-vanished right away,
-She _must_ have been a wicked witch, and by
-the fairies slain,
-For tho' I've looked each morning, she has
-_never_ come again.
-
-
-
-
-FAIRY MUSIC
-
-
-I found a little fairy flute
-Beneath a harebell blue;
-I sat me down upon the moss
-And blew a note or two.
-
-And as I blew the rabbits came
-Around me in the sun,
-And little mice and velvet moles
-Came creeping, one by one.
-
-A swallow perched upon my head,
-A robin on my thumb,
-The thrushes sang in tune with me,
-The bees began to hum.
-
-I loved to see them all around
-And wished they'd always stay,
-When down a little fairy flew
-And _snatched_ my flute away!
-
-And then the swallow fluttered off,
-And gone were all the bees,
-The rabbits ran, and I was left
-Alone among the trees!
-
-
-
-
-THE LITTLE FOLK ON THE HILL
-
-
-Right on the top of the Feraling Hill
-There's a queer little seat made of stone,
-And sometimes I climb up the heathery slope.
-And sit in the wind all alone.
-
-Nobody knows why the little seat's there,
-(It's almost too tiny for me)
-But I love to squeeze into it on a clear day,
-And look over the hills to the sea.
-
-Sometimes I've sat there and heard funny
-sounds
-And voices, and tho' I've kept still,
-I've only seen one of the queer Little Folk
-That I _know_ live inside of the hill.
-
-For once I came quietly up to the stone--
-And on it sat one of the Folk!
-He was looking across all the hills to the sea,
-But he vanished away when I spoke.
-
-And that's how _I_ know why the little seat's
-there,
-And why it's small even for me;
-The Folk put it there in the wind, for _they love_
-To look over the hills to the sea.
-
-
-
-
-THE MOON AT TEA-TIME
-
-
-I was playing in the meadow, where there's
-not a single tree,
-I was throwing bits of sorrel at a fat old
-bumble-bee,
-And then--I just looked up to see the clouds
-go sailing by--
-And oh, I saw the _moon_, in daytime! and I
-_can't_ think why!
-
-Such funny things keep happ'ning, and
-they've happened all to-day,
-First, I found a weeny mouse, all cuddled in
-the hay,
-Then at home we've got a baby, from _I_ don't
-know where!
-And now I find the moon at _tea-time_, sitting in
-the air!
-
-I'm sure it's wrong, because the Bible says it's
-meant for night,
-And look, it hides behind the clouds--it knows
-it isn't right.
-Now there it comes! Oh, silly moon, you make
-the sun look fine,
-'Cos bumping up against the clouds has
-rubbed off all _your_ shine!
-
-
-
-
-APRIL
-
-
-Oh, April brings the cuckoo-bird, and April
-brings the rain,
-April hangs a hundred sunny raindrops in the
-lane,
-She can wash the sky with woolly clouds of
-purest white,
-And gaily dress it up in rainbows, curving out
-of sight.
-
-Oh, April hangs the chestnut trees with spires
-of white and pink,
-And kisses all the primroses along the river's
-brink,
-She peeps into the tiny nests where eggs are
-hidden well,
-And searches out the purple violets growing in
-the dell.
-
-Oh, April swings the apple blossom, sweet
-against the sky
-And chases all the bob-tail rabbits scuttling
-gaily by,
-She dances with the meadow cowslips, drooping
-heads of gold,
-Oh, April is the sweetest month that any year
-can hold!
-
-
-
-
-THE SILENT POOL
-
-
-Away in the wood where it's dark,
-There's a pool that is purplish green,
-With whispering rushes around,
-That murmur of things they have seen.
-
-I once lay and listened all night,
-And heard why the pool lies alone;
-Not even a fairy goes near
-And only the sad rushes moan.
-
-I heard how there once lived a witch,
-Who weaved wicked spells night and day,
-And used the pool's purplish deeps
-For things which I wouldn't dare say.
-
-Then one day she vanished and went,
-And never was seen any more,
-But silent and still lay the pool,
-And darker than ever before.
-
-No fairy knows what the pool holds,
-And none guesses what secrets lie
-Hid safely away in its deeps,
-But shuddering, all pass it by.
-
-Take heed when you go through the wood,
-And pass where the pool lies alone--
-Not even a fairy goes near,
-And only the sad rushes moan!
-
-
-
-
-THIS AFTERNOON
-
-
-This afternoon is very hot,
-And all the sky is blue,
-The busy bees are humming loud,
-They have a lot to do.
-
-I want to go out in the fields
-Where all the daisies grow,
-And watch the little breezes bend
-The grasses to and fro.
-I want to watch the butterflies,
-And hear the cuckoo call,
-I'd cuckoo back to see if he
-Would answer me at all.
-
-The buttercups are shaking gold
-Upon the dry brown earth,
-And shiny beetles race along
-The ground, for all they're worth.
-I want to lie down on the grass
-And look up at the sky,
-It looks so queer and far away
-And wonderfully high.
-
-It's such a lovely afternoon,
-With lovely things to see;
-Oh, _why_ must I in my best frock
-Be taken out to tea?
-
-
-
-
-THE "FEELING"
-
-
-Inside of me there's a Feeling lives,
-That wakes when I see a rose,
-Or the snow, or sunshine, or daisy fields;
-It wakes for a time--and then goes.
-
-When I suddenly see the rainbow shine
-Right over the sky so wide,
-And the sunshine gleams thro' the pouring rain,
-I get that "Feeling" inside.
-
-When I get out of bed on a winter's mom,
-And look thro' my window pane,
-And find the snow on the trees and fields,
-I get the Feeling again.
-
-When a great big wave comes sweeping up
-On a stormy and windy tide,
-And crashes against the rocks in spray,
-I get the Feeling inside.
-
-I once told Nannie just how I felt,
-But I'm not going to tell her again.
-_She_ didn't know at all what I meant,
-She called my Feeling a _pain!_
-
-
-
-
-THE NAUGHTY GNOME
-
-
-A little gnome in Fairyland
-Once found a pot of glue,
-And he of course began to think
-What mischief he could do!
-
-He smeared the toadstools, one and all,
-Whereon the fairies sat,
-And oh, how cross they were to find
-A naughty trick like that!
-
-He dropped some glue upon the grass,
-To catch the fairies' feet,
-When there came by the Fairy King
-And Queen with all their suite.
-
-The King walked straight upon the glue
-And found he couldn't stir!
-Then came the frightened gnome, and cried,
-"Oh, please have mercy, Sir!
-
-I didn't mean to catch _your_ feet
-Within my sticky glue,
-But please forgive me and I'll find
-Some better thing to do!"
-
-"I'll pardon you," the King replied,
-"But harken what I say,
-Go, use your glue on _chestnut_ buds,
-To keep the frost away."
-
-So in the chestnuts every spring
-The gnome works all day long,
-And if you touch a bud, you'll find
-His glue is _very_ strong!
-
-
-
-
-SIX O'CLOCK
-
-
-We always wake at six o'clock,
-When Nurse is still asleep;
-She's hidden under all the clothes,
-Her breathes are loud and deep.
-
-We mustn't talk till seven strikes,
-And so we just turn round
-And hear the milk-carts going by,
-They have a tinny sound.
-
-I look up at the ceiling, and
-I count the cracks I see,
-And all the flies upon the wall;
-Once there were _twenty-three!_
-
-Teddie pulls out feathers from
-The eiderdown, and blows
-With all his might, to make them drop
-On top of Nurse's nose.
-
-I breathe on all the brassy nobs
-That feel so very cold;
-They go quite dull till Teddie rubs,
-And makes them shine like gold.
-
-And now I've told you all these things,
-If you wake early, too,
-And mustn't talk till seven strikes,
-_You'll_ know just what to do.
-
-
-
-
-THE IMP'S MISTAKE
-
-
-As Anna slept beside the fire
-An imp as black as soot
-Came down the chimney in a bound,
-And landed by her foot!
-
-He looked at her black shining shoe,
-A frown came on his face,
-He thought it was a piece of coal
-A-tumbled from its place!
-
-And so he started tugging hard
-To put it back again
-Upon the fire, when Anna woke
-And gave a cry of pain!
-
-"You naughty little imp," she cried,
-"Just leave my foot alone!"
-And in a trice the imp had jumped
-And up the chimney flown!
-
-So when you're sitting by the fire,
-It's better, on the whole,
-To keep awake, in case that imp
-Should think _your_ shoes are coal!
-
-
-
-
-PUT TO BED
-
-
-The sun is shining hot and bright,
-The gardener's mowing grass,
-He's doing it with all his might,
-I hear his footsteps pass.
-
-Nurse put me here in bed alone
-Because I've not been good;
-I think her heart is hard as stone--
-I didn't think she would.
-
-I haven't been so very bad,
-I'll tell you what I've done.
-I took a pencil that I had,
-A lovely orange one.
-
-I drew a splendid pattern round
-The dining room and hall,
-And trees that grew up from the ground,
-Right up the nursery wall.
-
-I'd started on a giant's head,
-I know just how they're made,
-When Nurse came in, so cross and red,
-It made me feel afraid.
-
-I never had behaved, she said,
-So wickedly before;
-She made me go upstairs to bed,
-And then she banged the door.
-
-She took my toys and books and ball,
-And all the bricks I'd built;
-There's nothing here that's nice at all,
-'Cept Grannie's patchwork quilt!
-
-
-
-
-THE MERRY BREEZE
-
-
-Round about the orchard went the merry
-little breeze,
-Playing with the butterflies and teasing all
-the bees,
-Sending showers of apple-blossom down upon
-the ground,
-And spilling half the dew-drops from the
-grasses all around.
-
-He ruffled up the feathers of the ducks a-sailing
-by,
-And hustled all the lazy clods that floated in
-the sky,
-He swung the beeches to and fro, then darted
-off again
-To dry the shiny puddles scattered down along
-the lane.
-
-The chimney smoke he twisted in the queerest
-kind of way,
-Until at last the little breeze was weary of his
-play;
-He crept back to the orchard, where the
-daffodillies peep,
-And there it was I found him lying, curled up
-fast asleep!
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-AN ACCIDENT
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-We've a little summer house
-With a pointed top,
-And on it, watching us at play,
-The fairies often stop.
-
-But now we've done a dreadful thing,
-And frightened them away,
-Because, by accident, our ball
-Struck two of them to-day.
-
-It bounced upon the summer house,
-And hurt the fairies there;
-They flew away with cries of pain,
-And said it wasn't fair.
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-Each day we watch our summer house
-And watch the pointed top.
-But now, tho' fairies fly around,
-They _never_ come to stop.
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-A HAPPY ENDING
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-I found a ship upon the sea,
-All ready waiting there for me,
-So in I jumped and off we sped,
-To gleaming waters far ahead.
-
-But soon a wind came moaning by
-And clouds filled all the sunny sky,
-The sea was speckled with the rain,
-And my ship rolled and rolled again.
-
-The waves crashed grandly on the deck.
-The sails dripped rain-drops down my neck,
-Then straight ahead, I spied a rock,
-And braced myself to meet the shock--
-
-Crash! we struck, and there we stayed,
-While rain and storm around us played;
-The ship at once began to fill,
-And down and down we sank--until
-
-I yelled in fear and clutched the side,
-Half-drowning in the racing tide.
-And just as mast and rigging broke,
-I found myself in bed--and WOKE!
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-Title: Child Whispers
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-CHILD WHISPERS
-
-By
-
-ENID BLYTON
-
-LONDON
-
-J. SAVILLE & CO. LIMITED
-
-EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS,
-
-5, GOWER STREET, W.C.I
-
-1923
-
-
-
-
-DEDICATED TO FOUR LITTLE BROTHERS
-
-DAVID, BRIAN, PETER
-AND JOHN
-
-
-
-
-CONTENTS
-
-Preface
-Rosamunda
-Disappointment
-On Strike
-Fairy Sight
-A Fairy Necklace
-Paying a Call
-Before Breakfast
-Goblins
-The Fairy's Bedtime
-Poppies
-A Queer Butterfly
-Lovely Frocks
-The Jolly Wind
-The Witch's Balloons
-Fairy Music
-The Little Folk on the Hill
-The Moon at Tea-Time
-April
-The Silent Pool
-This Afternoon
-The "Feeling"
-The Naughty Gnome
-Six o'clock
-The Imp's Mistake
-Put to Bed
-The Merry Breeze
-An Accident
-A Happy Ending
-
-
-
-
-PREFACE
-
-
-The children of nowadays are different in
-many of their likes and dislikes, from the
-children of ten years ago. This change of
-attitude is noticeable as much in the world of
-children's poetry as it is in other things.
-
-In my experience of teaching I have found
-the children delight in two distinct types of
-verses. These are the humorous type and the
-imaginative poetical type--but the humour
-must be from the child's point of view and not
-from the "grown-up's"--a very different
-thing. And the imagination in the second
-type of poem must be clear and whimsical,
-otherwise the appeal fails and the child does
-not respond.
-
-As I found a lack of suitable poems of the
-types I wanted, I began to write them myself
-for the children under my supervision, taking,
-in many cases, the ideas, humorous or whimsical,
-of the children themselves, as the theme
-of the poems. Finding them to be successful,
-I continued, until the suggestion was made to
-me that many children, other than those in
-my own school, might enjoy hearing and
-learning the poems. Accordingly this collection
-of verses is put forward in the hope that
-it will be a source of sincere enjoyment to the
-little people of the world.
-
-
-ENID BLYTON.
-
-
-
-
-ROSAMUNDA
-
-
-In the garden very early
-Rosamunda's walking,
-And to her surprise she hears
-Lots of fairies talking.
-
-She looks around but cannot see
-Where they can be hiding;
-Not on any butterfly
-Nor bee, are they a-riding.
-
-She goes to where the tulips grow
-And finds a sight of wonder,
-For out pop fairy elves and say,
-"Good-morning, Rosamunda!"
-
-
-
-
-DISAPPOINTMENT
-
-
-Once I found a fairy
-In my cup of tea.
-She was nearly drowned
-And wet as wet could be.
-
-I picked her out and dried her
-And asked her if she'd stay;
-"Oh, no," she said, "_I mustn't_,"
-And off she flew away.
-
-
-
-
-ON STRIKE
-
-
-My dollies are so naughty,
-I'm afraid they've gone on strike;
-They won't let me undress them,
-But just do what they like.
-
-They say they want a penny
-To spend on Saturday,
-And 'less I let them have it,
-They'll not join in my play.
-
-I can't let them behave so,
-They'll never grow up right--
-But I know they will be sorry
-When I don't kiss them good-night.
-
-
-
-
-FAIRY SIGHT
-
-
-If you want to see a fairy,
-In the middle of the night,
-Wrap the blanket round you,
-And shut your eyes up tight.
-Say "Akral dafarray!"
-And open your right eye,
-And (if you've been a good child)
-A fairy flutters by!
-
-
-
-
-A FAIRY NECKLACE
-
-
-The rain had rained all morning,
-And then the sun shone fair,
-And all the garden glittered
-With raindrops everywhere!
-
-There were raindrops on the grasses,
-And raindrops on the trees,
-And how they shook and shivered,
-Like diamonds, in the breeze!
-
-And oh, I saw a fairy
-Come flying right by me;
-She shook a score of raindrops,
-From off the hazel tree.
-
-She slung them on a spider's thread,
-A necklace made of rain!
-She clasped them round her little neck,
-And off she flew again!
-
-
-
-
-PAYING A CALL
-
-
-I put on my hat with the band of blue,
-And my frock with the frilly lace,
-I took my sunshade, and held it up,
-To keep the sun off my face.
-
-I thought I'd go calling like Mother does,
-And have pretty cakes for tea,
-And sit on the edge of a chair and talk
-With a tea-cup on my knee.
-
-I walked all along the sunny road,
-Till I came to Mrs. Leroy's.
-I climbed the steps, and I rang the bell--
-It made such a jangley noise.
-
-And then I suddenly felt afraid,
-And couldn't think what I would say
-When they opened the door--so I jumped
-the steps,
-And I ran back home all the way.
-
-Nurse saw me coining in my best frock,
-And oh, how she scolded me!
-And that's why I'm wearing an overall now,
-And not having jam for tea.
-
-
-
-
-BEFORE BREAKFAST
-
-
-I go round the garden early, when the grass is
-bright with dew,
-And I have to put goloshes on my feet.
-I'll tell you all I do there, right away from
-people's view,
-When the world is half-awake and very
-sweet.
-
-I shake the lady hollyhocks to make the bees
-fly out,
-And I see how much they've grown since
-yesterday.
-I pop the fattest fuchsia buds, if gardener's
-not about,
-And I blow the dandelion clocks away.
-
-I smell the honeysuckle and the lavender as
-well,
-I take the rose-leaves fallen down beyond;
-They're pink and white and beautiful, just like
-a fairy shell,
-And I save them up for sailing on the pond.
-
-I stand upon the mossy wall, and smell the
-new mown hay,
-And I feel the wind that blows the clouds
-along;
-I think there never, _never_ could be such a
-lovely day--
-And then, I hear that horrid breakfast gong!
-
-
-
-
-GOBLINS
-
-
-When I am cross as I can be, and nothing's
-ever right,
-Then Mummy says there's naughty goblins,
-hiding out of sight,
-Who try to make me do what's wrong, and try
-to make me bad,
-They like me to forget things, and make other
-people sad.
-
-I've never found them anywhere, I don't know
-where to look,
-I've only seen them in the pages of my
-picture-book,
-But oh, I'm _sure_ they're all about in
-everybody's house,
-Little creepy-crawley things, as quiet as a
-mouse.
-
-When cook forgets to put the sugar in the
-Sunday cake,
-And gardener breaks the barrow-wheel, and
-loses Daddie's rake,
-And Nurse is very cross indeed, and won't let
-me go out,
-I always know those nasty little goblins are
-about.
-
-I play next-door with Peter, and there's
-goblins even there,
-Altho' it's such a lovely house, I can't think
-how they dare,
-But often Peter's Daddie is as grumpy as can
-be,
-All over nothing, so the goblins must be there,
-you see.
-
-Whenever things go very wrong, I hide myself
-away,
-To try and see those goblins, and I'm sure I
-shall some day.
-And if they bother you at all, you try and
-catch them, too,
-And _will_ you save them up for me to look at,
-if you do?
-
-
-
-
-THE FAIRY'S BEDTIME
-
-
-Just before they go to bed,
-The fairy babes are told
-To sit upon their toadstools, and
-To be as good as gold.
-
-So down they sit, all in a ring,
-It's supper-time, they know,
-For look, their little acorn cups
-Are standing in a row.
-
-A fairy fills the little cups,
-With dew and honey sweet
-And gives one to each little babe
-With something nice to eat.
-
-Then off into the trees they fly
-And curl themselves up tight
-Inside a leaf that's soft and warm,
-And there they sleep all night.
-
-
-
-
-POPPIES
-
-
-Up the lane behind our house
-A little hill you climb,
-And at the top on either side
-There is in Summer time--
-A cornfield waving in the wind,
-Where poppies shake their head
-And peep at you between the corn,
-A glowing dancing red--
-I'll tell you what I did one day
-When nurse was cross with me,
-And pulled my hair back in a plait,
-As tight as tight could be--
-I crept up to the swaying corn
-And in the poppies there
-I sat down by myself, and then
-I undid all my hair!
-I picked some gleaming poppies red,
-The biggest I could find,
-I wound them tightly in my curls,
-And some hung down behind.
-I walked about so very grand
-Till it began to rain,
-When one by one the poppies fell,
-And I went home again.
-
-
-
-
-A QUEER BUTTERFLY
-
-
-I caught a lovely butterfly,
-In Marianna's net.
-It was the sweetest blue and gold,
-The prettiest I'd seen yet.
-
-But Marianna came and said
-The butterfly should be
-Not mine, but _hers_, because the net
-Belonged to her, not me.
-
-We quarrelled hard, and didn't stop,
-Until my frock was torn,
-And then she pointed down to where
-The net lay, on the lawn.
-
-The butterfly was creeping out
-And spread its wings of blue,
-And then _stood up_, just fancy that!
-You'd hardly think it true!
-
-We saw then what it really was,
-A fairy, come to play,
-And all because we quarrelled so,
-She fluttered right away.
-
-
-
-
-LOVELY FROCKS
-
-
-In my Mummy's wardrobe, there are lots of
-lovely frocks,
-I know because I've seen them hanging
-there;
-There's purple, and there's orange, and a frilly
-one of blue,
-And a yellow that is shiny like her hair.
-
-The satin frocks make Mummy look just like a
-fairy Queen--
-But she can't cuddle me at all in those--
-And when she wears a silken frock, it rustles
-like the trees--
-But I can't kiss her 'cos I spoils the bows.
-
-And tho' I love her pretty dresses, 'cos she
-looks so grand,
-What I like really best of all to see,
-Is when she's in the garden, wearing _just_ an
-overall--
-And comes to romp and play about with me.
-
-
-
-THE JOLLY WIND
-
-
-"Hurrah!" says the wind, as he sweeps along,
-"Three cheers for the sun to-day,
-Just look at him shining away in the sky!
-Do come along, children, and play!
-
-I'll fly your kites on the top of the hill,
-And I'll spin the old weather-cock round!
-I'll send your boats sailing away down the
-stream,
-Till bump! they have all come aground!
-
-Come along while I turn the old windmill about,
-And hear how it groans and it creaks;
-Just see how I tweak off your bonnets and caps,
-And hear all the laughter and shrieks!
-
-I'll make you run faster than ever before,
-I'll spin you around and about!
-Oh, hurry up, children, and come out of school,
-"Hurrah!" says the wind, with a shout!
-
-
-
-
-THE WITCH'S BALLOONS
-
-
-Opposite the nursery sat a woman old and
-brown,
-I should think she was the very oldest person
-in the town,
-She sold balloons to children as they passed
-her corner there,
-She was very cross and horrid and she had a
-nasty stare.
-
-I looked at her one morning, on a very
-windy day,
-And she saw me and she stared at me in such
-a nasty way,
-I felt afraid, and certain sure that she must be
-a witch,
-And keep all sorts of stolen treasures hidden
-in a ditch.
-
-And as I looked at her, and she was staring up
-at me,
-I saw a fairy flying low from out the chestnut
-tree,
-She held a little knife, and oh, she cut the
-strings right through,
-That held the big balloons together, then away
-she flew!
-
-And off went all the purple ones and off went
-all the pink,
-A-flying in the air as high as ever you could
-think,
-Around the chimney pots, and right away up
-in the sky,
-Until they bumped into the clouds, a-sailing
-slowly by.
-
-And then I looked to see what that old woman
-had to say,
-But there wasn't any sign of her, she'd
-vanished right away,
-She _must_ have been a wicked witch, and by
-the fairies slain,
-For tho' I've looked each morning, she has
-_never_ come again.
-
-
-
-
-FAIRY MUSIC
-
-
-I found a little fairy flute
-Beneath a harebell blue;
-I sat me down upon the moss
-And blew a note or two.
-
-And as I blew the rabbits came
-Around me in the sun,
-And little mice and velvet moles
-Came creeping, one by one.
-
-A swallow perched upon my head,
-A robin on my thumb,
-The thrushes sang in tune with me,
-The bees began to hum.
-
-I loved to see them all around
-And wished they'd always stay,
-When down a little fairy flew
-And _snatched_ my flute away!
-
-And then the swallow fluttered off,
-And gone were all the bees,
-The rabbits ran, and I was left
-Alone among the trees!
-
-
-
-
-THE LITTLE FOLK ON THE HILL
-
-
-Right on the top of the Feraling Hill
-There's a queer little seat made of stone,
-And sometimes I climb up the heathery slope.
-And sit in the wind all alone.
-
-Nobody knows why the little seat's there,
-(It's almost too tiny for me)
-But I love to squeeze into it on a clear day,
-And look over the hills to the sea.
-
-Sometimes I've sat there and heard funny
-sounds
-And voices, and tho' I've kept still,
-I've only seen one of the queer Little Folk
-That I _know_ live inside of the hill.
-
-For once I came quietly up to the stone--
-And on it sat one of the Folk!
-He was looking across all the hills to the sea,
-But he vanished away when I spoke.
-
-And that's how _I_ know why the little seat's
-there,
-And why it's small even for me;
-The Folk put it there in the wind, for _they love_
-To look over the hills to the sea.
-
-
-
-
-THE MOON AT TEA-TIME
-
-
-I was playing in the meadow, where there's
-not a single tree,
-I was throwing bits of sorrel at a fat old
-bumble-bee,
-And then--I just looked up to see the clouds
-go sailing by--
-And oh, I saw the _moon_, in daytime! and I
-_can't_ think why!
-
-Such funny things keep happ'ning, and
-they've happened all to-day,
-First, I found a weeny mouse, all cuddled in
-the hay,
-Then at home we've got a baby, from _I_ don't
-know where!
-And now I find the moon at _tea-time_, sitting in
-the air!
-
-I'm sure it's wrong, because the Bible says it's
-meant for night,
-And look, it hides behind the clouds--it knows
-it isn't right.
-Now there it comes! Oh, silly moon, you make
-the sun look fine,
-'Cos bumping up against the clouds has
-rubbed off all _your_ shine!
-
-
-
-
-APRIL
-
-
-Oh, April brings the cuckoo-bird, and April
-brings the rain,
-April hangs a hundred sunny raindrops in the
-lane,
-She can wash the sky with woolly clouds of
-purest white,
-And gaily dress it up in rainbows, curving out
-of sight.
-
-Oh, April hangs the chestnut trees with spires
-of white and pink,
-And kisses all the primroses along the river's
-brink,
-She peeps into the tiny nests where eggs are
-hidden well,
-And searches out the purple violets growing in
-the dell.
-
-Oh, April swings the apple blossom, sweet
-against the sky
-And chases all the bob-tail rabbits scuttling
-gaily by,
-She dances with the meadow cowslips, drooping
-heads of gold,
-Oh, April is the sweetest month that any year
-can hold!
-
-
-
-
-THE SILENT POOL
-
-
-Away in the wood where it's dark,
-There's a pool that is purplish green,
-With whispering rushes around,
-That murmur of things they have seen.
-
-I once lay and listened all night,
-And heard why the pool lies alone;
-Not even a fairy goes near
-And only the sad rushes moan.
-
-I heard how there once lived a witch,
-Who weaved wicked spells night and day,
-And used the pool's purplish deeps
-For things which I wouldn't dare say.
-
-Then one day she vanished and went,
-And never was seen any more,
-But silent and still lay the pool,
-And darker than ever before.
-
-No fairy knows what the pool holds,
-And none guesses what secrets lie
-Hid safely away in its deeps,
-But shuddering, all pass it by.
-
-Take heed when you go through the wood,
-And pass where the pool lies alone--
-Not even a fairy goes near,
-And only the sad rushes moan!
-
-
-
-
-THIS AFTERNOON
-
-
-This afternoon is very hot,
-And all the sky is blue,
-The busy bees are humming loud,
-They have a lot to do.
-
-I want to go out in the fields
-Where all the daisies grow,
-And watch the little breezes bend
-The grasses to and fro.
-I want to watch the butterflies,
-And hear the cuckoo call,
-I'd cuckoo back to see if he
-Would answer me at all.
-
-The buttercups are shaking gold
-Upon the dry brown earth,
-And shiny beetles race along
-The ground, for all they're worth.
-I want to lie down on the grass
-And look up at the sky,
-It looks so queer and far away
-And wonderfully high.
-
-It's such a lovely afternoon,
-With lovely things to see;
-Oh, _why_ must I in my best frock
-Be taken out to tea?
-
-
-
-
-THE "FEELING"
-
-
-Inside of me there's a Feeling lives,
-That wakes when I see a rose,
-Or the snow, or sunshine, or daisy fields;
-It wakes for a time--and then goes.
-
-When I suddenly see the rainbow shine
-Right over the sky so wide,
-And the sunshine gleams thro' the pouring rain,
-I get that "Feeling" inside.
-
-When I get out of bed on a winter's mom,
-And look thro' my window pane,
-And find the snow on the trees and fields,
-I get the Feeling again.
-
-When a great big wave comes sweeping up
-On a stormy and windy tide,
-And crashes against the rocks in spray,
-I get the Feeling inside.
-
-I once told Nannie just how I felt,
-But I'm not going to tell her again.
-_She_ didn't know at all what I meant,
-She called my Feeling a _pain!_
-
-
-
-
-THE NAUGHTY GNOME
-
-
-A little gnome in Fairyland
-Once found a pot of glue,
-And he of course began to think
-What mischief he could do!
-
-He smeared the toadstools, one and all,
-Whereon the fairies sat,
-And oh, how cross they were to find
-A naughty trick like that!
-
-He dropped some glue upon the grass,
-To catch the fairies' feet,
-When there came by the Fairy King
-And Queen with all their suite.
-
-The King walked straight upon the glue
-And found he couldn't stir!
-Then came the frightened gnome, and cried,
-"Oh, please have mercy, Sir!
-
-I didn't mean to catch _your_ feet
-Within my sticky glue,
-But please forgive me and I'll find
-Some better thing to do!"
-
-"I'll pardon you," the King replied,
-"But harken what I say,
-Go, use your glue on _chestnut_ buds,
-To keep the frost away."
-
-So in the chestnuts every spring
-The gnome works all day long,
-And if you touch a bud, you'll find
-His glue is _very_ strong!
-
-
-
-
-SIX O'CLOCK
-
-
-We always wake at six o'clock,
-When Nurse is still asleep;
-She's hidden under all the clothes,
-Her breathes are loud and deep.
-
-We mustn't talk till seven strikes,
-And so we just turn round
-And hear the milk-carts going by,
-They have a tinny sound.
-
-I look up at the ceiling, and
-I count the cracks I see,
-And all the flies upon the wall;
-Once there were _twenty-three!_
-
-Teddie pulls out feathers from
-The eiderdown, and blows
-With all his might, to make them drop
-On top of Nurse's nose.
-
-I breathe on all the brassy nobs
-That feel so very cold;
-They go quite dull till Teddie rubs,
-And makes them shine like gold.
-
-And now I've told you all these things,
-If you wake early, too,
-And mustn't talk till seven strikes,
-_You'll_ know just what to do.
-
-
-
-
-THE IMP'S MISTAKE
-
-
-As Anna slept beside the fire
-An imp as black as soot
-Came down the chimney in a bound,
-And landed by her foot!
-
-He looked at her black shining shoe,
-A frown came on his face,
-He thought it was a piece of coal
-A-tumbled from its place!
-
-And so he started tugging hard
-To put it back again
-Upon the fire, when Anna woke
-And gave a cry of pain!
-
-"You naughty little imp," she cried,
-"Just leave my foot alone!"
-And in a trice the imp had jumped
-And up the chimney flown!
-
-So when you're sitting by the fire,
-It's better, on the whole,
-To keep awake, in case that imp
-Should think _your_ shoes are coal!
-
-
-
-
-PUT TO BED
-
-
-The sun is shining hot and bright,
-The gardener's mowing grass,
-He's doing it with all his might,
-I hear his footsteps pass.
-
-Nurse put me here in bed alone
-Because I've not been good;
-I think her heart is hard as stone--
-I didn't think she would.
-
-I haven't been so very bad,
-I'll tell you what I've done.
-I took a pencil that I had,
-A lovely orange one.
-
-I drew a splendid pattern round
-The dining room and hall,
-And trees that grew up from the ground,
-Right up the nursery wall.
-
-I'd started on a giant's head,
-I know just how they're made,
-When Nurse came in, so cross and red,
-It made me feel afraid.
-
-I never had behaved, she said,
-So wickedly before;
-She made me go upstairs to bed,
-And then she banged the door.
-
-She took my toys and books and ball,
-And all the bricks I'd built;
-There's nothing here that's nice at all,
-'Cept Grannie's patchwork quilt!
-
-
-
-
-THE MERRY BREEZE
-
-
-Round about the orchard went the merry
-little breeze,
-Playing with the butterflies and teasing all
-the bees,
-Sending showers of apple-blossom down upon
-the ground,
-And spilling half the dew-drops from the
-grasses all around.
-
-He ruffled up the feathers of the ducks a-sailing
-by,
-And hustled all the lazy clods that floated in
-the sky,
-He swung the beeches to and fro, then darted
-off again
-To dry the shiny puddles scattered down along
-the lane.
-
-The chimney smoke he twisted in the queerest
-kind of way,
-Until at last the little breeze was weary of his
-play;
-He crept back to the orchard, where the
-daffodillies peep,
-And there it was I found him lying, curled up
-fast asleep!
-
-
-
-
-AN ACCIDENT
-
-
-We've a little summer house
-With a pointed top,
-And on it, watching us at play,
-The fairies often stop.
-
-But now we've done a dreadful thing,
-And frightened them away,
-Because, by accident, our ball
-Struck two of them to-day.
-
-It bounced upon the summer house,
-And hurt the fairies there;
-They flew away with cries of pain,
-And said it wasn't fair.
-
-Each day we watch our summer house
-And watch the pointed top.
-But now, tho' fairies fly around,
-They _never_ come to stop.
-
-
-
-
-A HAPPY ENDING
-
-
-I found a ship upon the sea,
-All ready waiting there for me,
-So in I jumped and off we sped,
-To gleaming waters far ahead.
-
-But soon a wind came moaning by
-And clouds filled all the sunny sky,
-The sea was speckled with the rain,
-And my ship rolled and rolled again.
-
-The waves crashed grandly on the deck.
-The sails dripped rain-drops down my neck,
-Then straight ahead, I spied a rock,
-And braced myself to meet the shock--
-
-Crash! we struck, and there we stayed,
-While rain and storm around us played;
-The ship at once began to fill,
-And down and down we sank--until
-
-I yelled in fear and clutched the side,
-Half-drowning in the racing tide.
-And just as mast and rigging broke,
-I found myself in bed--and WOKE!
-
-
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-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
-<img src="images/whispers_cover.jpg" width="500" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<h2>CHILD WHISPERS</h2>
-
-<h4>By</h4>
-
-<h3>ENID BLYTON</h3>
-
-<h4>LONDON</h4>
-
-<h4>J. SAVILLE &amp; CO. LIMITED</h4>
-
-<h5>EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS,</h5>
-
-<h4>5, GOWER STREET, W.C.I</h4>
-
-<h5>1923</h5>
-
-<hr class="r5" />
-
-<h5>DEDICATED TO FOUR LITTLE BROTHERS</h5>
-
-<h4>DAVID, BRIAN, PETER<br />
-AND JOHN</h4>
-
-<hr class="r5" />
-
-<h4>CONTENTS</h4>
-
-<p><a href="#PREFACE">Preface</a><br />
-<a href="#ROSAMUNDA">Rosamunda</a><br />
-<a href="#DISAPPOINTMENT">Disappointment</a><br />
-<a href="#ON_STRIKE">On Strike</a><br />
-<a href="#FAIRY_SIGHT">Fairy Sight</a><br />
-<a href="#A_FAIRY_NECKLACE">A Fairy Necklace</a><br />
-<a href="#PAYING_A_CALL">Paying a Call</a><br />
-<a href="#BEFORE_BREAKFAST">Before Breakfast</a><br />
-<a href="#GOBLINS">Goblins</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_FAIRYS_BEDTIME">The Fairy's Bedtime</a><br />
-<a href="#POPPIES">Poppies</a><br />
-<a href="#A_QUEER_BUTTERFLY">A Queer Butterfly</a><br />
-<a href="#LOVELY_FROCKS">Lovely Frocks</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_JOLLY_WIND">The Jolly Wind</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_WITCHS_BALLOONS">The Witch's Balloons</a><br />
-<a href="#FAIRY_MUSIC">Fairy Music</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_LITTLE_FOLK_ON_THE_HILL">The Little Folk on the Hill</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_MOON_AT_TEA-TIME">The Moon at Tea-Time</a><br />
-<a href="#APRIL">April</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_SILENT_POOL">The Silent Pool</a><br />
-<a href="#THIS_AFTERNOON">This Afternoon</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_FEELING">The "Feeling"</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_NAUGHTY_GNOME">The Naughty Gnome</a><br />
-<a href="#SIX_OCLOCK">Six o'clock</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_IMPS_MISTAKE">The Imp's Mistake</a><br />
-<a href="#PUT_TO_BED">Put to Bed</a><br />
-<a href="#THE_MERRY_BREEZE">The Merry Breeze</a><br />
-<a href="#AN_ACCIDENT">An Accident</a><br />
-<a href="#A_HAPPY_ENDING">A Happy Ending</a></p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h4><a id="PREFACE">PREFACE</a></h4>
-
-<p>The children of nowadays are different in
-many of their likes and dislikes, from the
-children of ten years ago. This change of
-attitude is noticeable as much in the world of
-children's poetry as it is in other things.</p>
-
-<p>In my experience of teaching I have found
-the children delight in two distinct types of
-verses. These are the humorous type and the
-imaginative poetical type&mdash;but the humour
-must be from the child's point of view and not
-from the "grown-up's"&mdash;a very different
-thing. And the imagination in the second
-type of poem must be clear and whimsical,
-otherwise the appeal fails and the child does
-not respond.</p>
-
-<p>As I found a lack of suitable poems of the
-types I wanted, I began to write them myself
-for the children under my supervision, taking,
-in many cases, the ideas, humorous or whimsical,
-of the children themselves, as the theme
-of the poems. Finding them to be successful,
-I continued, until the suggestion was made to
-me that many children, other than those in
-my own school, might enjoy hearing and
-learning the poems. Accordingly this collection
-of verses is put forward in the hope that
-it will be a source of sincere enjoyment to the
-little people of the world.</p>
-
-<p style="margin-left: 60%;">ENID BLYTON.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="r5" />
-
-<h4><a id="ROSAMUNDA">ROSAMUNDA</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">In the garden very early<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Rosamunda's walking,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And to her surprise she hears<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Lots of fairies talking.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">She looks around but cannot see<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Where they can be hiding;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Not on any butterfly<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Nor bee, are they a-riding.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">She goes to where the tulips grow<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And finds a sight of wonder,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">For out pop fairy elves and say,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">"Good-morning, Rosamunda!"</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="DISAPPOINTMENT">DISAPPOINTMENT</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Once I found a fairy<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">In my cup of tea.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She was nearly drowned<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And wet as wet could be.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I picked her out and dried her<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And asked her if she'd stay;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">"Oh, no," she said, "<i>I mustn't</i>,"<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And off she flew away.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="ON_STRIKE">ON STRIKE</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">My dollies are so naughty,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I'm afraid they've gone on strike;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">They won't let me undress them,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">But just do what they like.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">They say they want a penny<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To spend on Saturday,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And 'less I let them have it,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">They'll not join in my play.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I can't let them behave so,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">They'll never grow up right&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But I know they will be sorry<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">When I don't kiss them good-night.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="FAIRY_SIGHT">FAIRY SIGHT</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">If you want to see a fairy,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">In the middle of the night,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Wrap the blanket round you,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And shut your eyes up tight.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Say "Akral dafarray!"<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And open your right eye,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And (if you've been a good child)<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A fairy flutters by!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="A_FAIRY_NECKLACE">A FAIRY NECKLACE</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The rain had rained all morning,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And then the sun shone fair,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And all the garden glittered<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">With raindrops everywhere!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">There were raindrops on the grasses,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And raindrops on the trees,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And how they shook and shivered,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Like diamonds, in the breeze!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And oh, I saw a fairy<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Come flying right by me;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She shook a score of raindrops,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">From off the hazel tree.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">She slung them on a spider's thread,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A necklace made of rain!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She clasped them round her little neck,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And off she flew again!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="PAYING_A_CALL">PAYING A CALL</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I put on my hat with the band of blue,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And my frock with the frilly lace,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I took my sunshade, and held it up,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To keep the sun off my face.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I thought I'd go calling like Mother does,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And have pretty cakes for tea,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And sit on the edge of a chair and talk<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">With a tea-cup on my knee.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I walked all along the sunny road,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Till I came to Mrs. Leroy's.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I climbed the steps, and I rang the bell&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">It made such a jangley noise.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And then I suddenly felt afraid,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And couldn't think what I would say<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">When they opened the door&mdash;so I jumped<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">the steps,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I ran back home all the way.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Nurse saw me coining in my best frock,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And oh, how she scolded me!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And that's why I'm wearing an overall now,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And not having jam for tea.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="BEFORE_BREAKFAST">BEFORE BREAKFAST</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I go round the garden early, when the grass is<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">bright with dew,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I have to put goloshes on my feet.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I'll tell you all I do there, right away from<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">people's view,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">When the world is half-awake and very<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">sweet.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I shake the lady hollyhocks to make the bees<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">fly out,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I see how much they've grown since<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">yesterday.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I pop the fattest fuchsia buds, if gardener's<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">not about,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I blow the dandelion clocks away.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I smell the honeysuckle and the lavender as<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">well,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I take the rose-leaves fallen down beyond;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">They're pink and white and beautiful, just like<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">a fairy shell,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I save them up for sailing on the pond.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I stand upon the mossy wall, and smell the<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">new mown hay,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I feel the wind that blows the clouds<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">along;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I think there never, <i>never</i> could be such a<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">lovely day&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And then, I hear that horrid breakfast gong!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="GOBLINS">GOBLINS</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">When I am cross as I can be, and nothing's<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">ever right,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Then Mummy says there's naughty goblins,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">hiding out of sight,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Who try to make me do what's wrong, and try<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">to make me bad,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">They like me to forget things, and make other<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">people sad.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I've never found them anywhere, I don't know<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">where to look,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I've only seen them in the pages of my<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">picture-book,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But oh, I'm <i>sure</i> they're all about in<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">everybody's house,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Little creepy-crawley things, as quiet as a<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">mouse.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">When cook forgets to put the sugar in the<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Sunday cake,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And gardener breaks the barrow-wheel, and<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">loses Daddie's rake,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And Nurse is very cross indeed, and won't let<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">me go out,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I always know those nasty little goblins are<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">about.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I play next-door with Peter, and there's<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">goblins even there,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Altho' it's such a lovely house, I can't think<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">how they dare,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But often Peter's Daddie is as grumpy as can<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">be,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">All over nothing, so the goblins must be there,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">you see.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Whenever things go very wrong, I hide myself<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">away,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">To try and see those goblins, and I'm sure I<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">shall some day.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And if they bother you at all, you try and<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">catch them, too,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And <i>will</i> you save them up for me to look at,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">if you do?</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_FAIRYS_BEDTIME">THE FAIRY'S BEDTIME</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Just before they go to bed,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The fairy babes are told<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">To sit upon their toadstools, and<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To be as good as gold.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">So down they sit, all in a ring,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">It's supper-time, they know,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">For look, their little acorn cups<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Are standing in a row.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">A fairy fills the little cups,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">With dew and honey sweet<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And gives one to each little babe<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">With something nice to eat.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Then off into the trees they fly<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And curl themselves up tight<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Inside a leaf that's soft and warm,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And there they sleep all night.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="POPPIES">POPPIES</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Up the lane behind our house<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A little hill you climb,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And at the top on either side<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">There is in Summer time&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">A cornfield waving in the wind,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Where poppies shake their head<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And peep at you between the corn,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A glowing dancing red&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I'll tell you what I did one day<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">When nurse was cross with me,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And pulled my hair back in a plait,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">As tight as tight could be&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I crept up to the swaying corn<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And in the poppies there<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I sat down by myself, and then<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I undid all my hair!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I picked some gleaming poppies red,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The biggest I could find,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I wound them tightly in my curls,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And some hung down behind.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I walked about so very grand<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Till it began to rain,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">When one by one the poppies fell,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I went home again.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="A_QUEER_BUTTERFLY">A QUEER BUTTERFLY</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I caught a lovely butterfly,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">In Marianna's net.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">It was the sweetest blue and gold,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The prettiest I'd seen yet.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">But Marianna came and said<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The butterfly should be<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Not mine, but <i>hers</i>, because the net<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Belonged to her, not me.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">We quarrelled hard, and didn't stop,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Until my frock was torn,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And then she pointed down to where<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The net lay, on the lawn.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The butterfly was creeping out<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And spread its wings of blue,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And then <i>stood up</i>, just fancy that!<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">You'd hardly think it true!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">We saw then what it really was,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A fairy, come to play,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And all because we quarrelled so,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">She fluttered right away.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="LOVELY_FROCKS">LOVELY FROCKS</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">In my Mummy's wardrobe, there are lots of<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">lovely frocks,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I know because I've seen them hanging<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">there;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">There's purple, and there's orange, and a frilly<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">one of blue,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And a yellow that is shiny like her hair.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The satin frocks make Mummy look just like a<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">fairy Queen&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">But she can't cuddle me at all in those&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And when she wears a silken frock, it rustles<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">like the trees&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">But I can't kiss her 'cos I spoils the bows.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And tho' I love her pretty dresses, 'cos she<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">looks so grand,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">What I like really best of all to see,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Is when she's in the garden, wearing <i>just</i> an<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">overall&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And comes to romp and play about with me.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_JOLLY_WIND">THE JOLLY WIND</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">"Hurrah!" says the wind, as he sweeps along,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">"Three cheers for the sun to-day,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Just look at him shining away in the sky!<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Do come along, children, and play!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I'll fly your kites on the top of the hill,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And I'll spin the old weather-cock round!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I'll send your boats sailing away down the<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">stream,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Till bump! they have all come aground!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Come along while I turn the old windmill about,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And hear how it groans and it creaks;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Just see how I tweak off your bonnets and caps,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And hear all the laughter and shrieks!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I'll make you run faster than ever before,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I'll spin you around and about!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Oh, hurry up, children, and come out of school,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">"Hurrah!" says the wind, with a shout!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_WITCHS_BALLOONS">THE WITCH'S BALLOONS</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Opposite the nursery sat a woman old and<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">brown,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I should think she was the very oldest person<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">in the town,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She sold balloons to children as they passed<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">her corner there,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She was very cross and horrid and she had a<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">nasty stare.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I looked at her one morning, on a very<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">windy day,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And she saw me and she stared at me in such<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">a nasty way,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I felt afraid, and certain sure that she must be<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">a witch,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And keep all sorts of stolen treasures hidden<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">in a ditch.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And as I looked at her, and she was staring up<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">at me,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I saw a fairy flying low from out the chestnut<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">tree,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She held a little knife, and oh, she cut the<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">strings right through,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">That held the big balloons together, then away<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">she flew!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And off went all the purple ones and off went<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">all the pink,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">A-flying in the air as high as ever you could<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">think,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Around the chimney pots, and right away up<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">in the sky,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Until they bumped into the clouds, a-sailing<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">slowly by.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And then I looked to see what that old woman<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">had to say,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But there wasn't any sign of her, she'd<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">vanished right away,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She <i>must</i> have been a wicked witch, and by<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the fairies slain,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">For tho' I've looked each morning, she has<br /></span>
-<span class="i2"><i>never</i> come again.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="FAIRY_MUSIC">FAIRY MUSIC</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I found a little fairy flute<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Beneath a harebell blue;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I sat me down upon the moss<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And blew a note or two.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And as I blew the rabbits came<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Around me in the sun,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And little mice and velvet moles<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Came creeping, one by one.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">A swallow perched upon my head,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A robin on my thumb,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The thrushes sang in tune with me,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The bees began to hum.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I loved to see them all around<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And wished they'd always stay,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">When down a little fairy flew<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And <i>snatched</i> my flute away!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And then the swallow fluttered off,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And gone were all the bees,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The rabbits ran, and I was left<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Alone among the trees!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_LITTLE_FOLK_ON_THE_HILL">THE LITTLE FOLK ON THE HILL</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Right on the top of the Feraling Hill<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">There's a queer little seat made of stone,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And sometimes I climb up the heathery slope.<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And sit in the wind all alone.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Nobody knows why the little seat's there,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">(It's almost too tiny for me)<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But I love to squeeze into it on a clear day,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And look over the hills to the sea.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Sometimes I've sat there and heard funny<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">sounds<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And voices, and tho' I've kept still,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I've only seen one of the queer Little Folk<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">That I <i>know</i> live inside of the hill.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">For once I came quietly up to the stone&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And on it sat one of the Folk!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">He was looking across all the hills to the sea,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">But he vanished away when I spoke.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And that's how <i>I</i> know why the little seat's<br /></span>
-<span class="i3">there,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And why it's small even for me;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The Folk put it there in the wind, for <i>they love</i><br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To look over the hills to the sea.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_MOON_AT_TEA-TIME">THE MOON AT TEA-TIME</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I was playing in the meadow, where there's<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">not a single tree,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I was throwing bits of sorrel at a fat old<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">bumble-bee,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And then&mdash;I just looked up to see the clouds<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">go sailing by&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And oh, I saw the <i>moon</i>, in daytime! and I<br /></span>
-<span class="i2"><i>can't</i> think why!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Such funny things keep happ'ning, and<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">they've happened all to-day,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">First, I found a weeny mouse, all cuddled in<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the hay,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Then at home we've got a baby, from <i>I</i> don't<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">know where!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And now I find the moon at <i>tea-time</i>, sitting in<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the air!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I'm sure it's wrong, because the Bible says it's<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">meant for night,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And look, it hides behind the clouds&mdash;it knows<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">it isn't right.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Now there it comes! Oh, silly moon, you make<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the sun look fine,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">'Cos bumping up against the clouds has<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">rubbed off all <i>your</i> shine!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="APRIL">APRIL</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Oh, April brings the cuckoo-bird, and April<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">brings the rain,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">April hangs a hundred sunny raindrops in the<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">lane,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She can wash the sky with woolly clouds of<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">purest white,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And gaily dress it up in rainbows, curving out<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">of sight.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Oh, April hangs the chestnut trees with spires<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">of white and pink,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And kisses all the primroses along the river's<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">brink,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She peeps into the tiny nests where eggs are<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">hidden well,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And searches out the purple violets growing in<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the dell.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Oh, April swings the apple blossom, sweet<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">against the sky<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And chases all the bob-tail rabbits scuttling<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">gaily by,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She dances with the meadow cowslips, drooping<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">heads of gold,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Oh, April is the sweetest month that any year<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">can hold!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_SILENT_POOL">THE SILENT POOL</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Away in the wood where it's dark,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">There's a pool that is purplish green,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">With whispering rushes around,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">That murmur of things they have seen.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I once lay and listened all night,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And heard why the pool lies alone;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Not even a fairy goes near<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And only the sad rushes moan.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I heard how there once lived a witch,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Who weaved wicked spells night and day,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And used the pool's purplish deeps<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">For things which I wouldn't dare say.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Then one day she vanished and went,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And never was seen any more,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But silent and still lay the pool,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And darker than ever before.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">No fairy knows what the pool holds,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And none guesses what secrets lie<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Hid safely away in its deeps,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">But shuddering, all pass it by.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Take heed when you go through the wood,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And pass where the pool lies alone&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Not even a fairy goes near,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And only the sad rushes moan!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THIS_AFTERNOON">THIS AFTERNOON</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">This afternoon is very hot,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And all the sky is blue,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The busy bees are humming loud,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">They have a lot to do.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I want to go out in the fields<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Where all the daisies grow,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And watch the little breezes bend<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The grasses to and fro.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I want to watch the butterflies,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And hear the cuckoo call,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I'd cuckoo back to see if he<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Would answer me at all.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The buttercups are shaking gold<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Upon the dry brown earth,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And shiny beetles race along<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The ground, for all they're worth.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I want to lie down on the grass<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And look up at the sky,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">It looks so queer and far away<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And wonderfully high.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">It's such a lovely afternoon,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">With lovely things to see;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Oh, <i>why</i> must I in my best frock<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Be taken out to tea?</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_FEELING">THE "FEELING"</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Inside of me there's a Feeling lives,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">That wakes when I see a rose,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Or the snow, or sunshine, or daisy fields;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">It wakes for a time&mdash;and then goes.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">When I suddenly see the rainbow shine<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Right over the sky so wide,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And the sunshine gleams thro' the pouring rain,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I get that "Feeling" inside.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">When I get out of bed on a winter's mom,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And look thro' my window pane,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And find the snow on the trees and fields,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I get the Feeling again.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">When a great big wave comes sweeping up<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">On a stormy and windy tide,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And crashes against the rocks in spray,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I get the Feeling inside.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I once told Nannie just how I felt,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">But I'm not going to tell her again.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0"><i>She</i> didn't know at all what I meant,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">She called my Feeling a <i>pain!</i></span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_NAUGHTY_GNOME">THE NAUGHTY GNOME</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">A little gnome in Fairyland<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Once found a pot of glue,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And he of course began to think<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">What mischief he could do!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">He smeared the toadstools, one and all,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Whereon the fairies sat,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And oh, how cross they were to find<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A naughty trick like that!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">He dropped some glue upon the grass,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To catch the fairies' feet,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">When there came by the Fairy King<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And Queen with all their suite.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The King walked straight upon the glue<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And found he couldn't stir!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Then came the frightened gnome, and cried,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">"Oh, please have mercy, Sir!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I didn't mean to catch <i>your</i> feet<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Within my sticky glue,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But please forgive me and I'll find<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Some better thing to do!"<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">"I'll pardon you," the King replied,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">"But harken what I say,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Go, use your glue on <i>chestnut</i> buds,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To keep the frost away."<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">So in the chestnuts every spring<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The gnome works all day long,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And if you touch a bud, you'll find<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">His glue is <i>very</i> strong!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="SIX_OCLOCK">SIX O'CLOCK</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">We always wake at six o'clock,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">When Nurse is still asleep;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She's hidden under all the clothes,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Her breathes are loud and deep.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">We mustn't talk till seven strikes,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And so we just turn round<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And hear the milk-carts going by,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">They have a tinny sound.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I look up at the ceiling, and<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I count the cracks I see,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And all the flies upon the wall;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Once there were <i>twenty-three!</i><br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Teddie pulls out feathers from<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The eiderdown, and blows<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">With all his might, to make them drop<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">On top of Nurse's nose.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I breathe on all the brassy nobs<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">That feel so very cold;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">They go quite dull till Teddie rubs,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And makes them shine like gold.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And now I've told you all these things,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">If you wake early, too,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And mustn't talk till seven strikes,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2"><i>You'll</i> know just what to do.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_IMPS_MISTAKE">THE IMP'S MISTAKE</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">As Anna slept beside the fire<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">An imp as black as soot<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Came down the chimney in a bound,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And landed by her foot!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">He looked at her black shining shoe,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A frown came on his face,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">He thought it was a piece of coal<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A-tumbled from its place!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">And so he started tugging hard<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">To put it back again<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Upon the fire, when Anna woke<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And gave a cry of pain!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">"You naughty little imp," she cried,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">"Just leave my foot alone!"<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And in a trice the imp had jumped<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And up the chimney flown!<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">So when you're sitting by the fire,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">It's better, on the whole,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">To keep awake, in case that imp<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Should think <i>your</i> shoes are coal!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="PUT_TO_BED">PUT TO BED</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The sun is shining hot and bright,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The gardener's mowing grass,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">He's doing it with all his might,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I hear his footsteps pass.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Nurse put me here in bed alone<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Because I've not been good;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I think her heart is hard as stone&mdash;<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I didn't think she would.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I haven't been so very bad,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I'll tell you what I've done.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I took a pencil that I had,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">A lovely orange one.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I drew a splendid pattern round<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The dining room and hall,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And trees that grew up from the ground,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Right up the nursery wall.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I'd started on a giant's head,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">I know just how they're made,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">When Nurse came in, so cross and red,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">It made me feel afraid.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I never had behaved, she said,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">So wickedly before;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">She made me go upstairs to bed,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And then she banged the door.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">She took my toys and books and ball,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And all the bricks I'd built;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">There's nothing here that's nice at all,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">'Cept Grannie's patchwork quilt!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="THE_MERRY_BREEZE">THE MERRY BREEZE</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Round about the orchard went the merry<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">little breeze,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Playing with the butterflies and teasing all<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the bees,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Sending showers of apple-blossom down upon<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the ground,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And spilling half the dew-drops from the<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">grasses all around.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">He ruffled up the feathers of the ducks a-sailing<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">by,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And hustled all the lazy clods that floated in<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the sky,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">He swung the beeches to and fro, then darted<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">off again<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">To dry the shiny puddles scattered down along<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">the lane.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The chimney smoke he twisted in the queerest<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">kind of way,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Until at last the little breeze was weary of his<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">play;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">He crept back to the orchard, where the<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">daffodillies peep,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And there it was I found him lying, curled up<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">fast asleep!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="AN_ACCIDENT">AN ACCIDENT</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">We've a little summer house<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">With a pointed top,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And on it, watching us at play,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">The fairies often stop.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">But now we've done a dreadful thing,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And frightened them away,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Because, by accident, our ball<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Struck two of them to-day.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">It bounced upon the summer house,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And hurt the fairies there;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">They flew away with cries of pain,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And said it wasn't fair.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Each day we watch our summer house<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">And watch the pointed top.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">But now, tho' fairies fly around,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">They <i>never</i> come to stop.</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4><a id="A_HAPPY_ENDING">A HAPPY ENDING</a></h4>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I found a ship upon the sea,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">All ready waiting there for me,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">So in I jumped and off we sped,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">To gleaming waters far ahead.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">But soon a wind came moaning by<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And clouds filled all the sunny sky,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The sea was speckled with the rain,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And my ship rolled and rolled again.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The waves crashed grandly on the deck.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The sails dripped rain-drops down my neck,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Then straight ahead, I spied a rock,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And braced myself to meet the shock&mdash;<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Crash! we struck, and there we stayed,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">While rain and storm around us played;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The ship at once began to fill,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And down and down we sank&mdash;until<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">I yelled in fear and clutched the side,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Half-drowning in the racing tide.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And just as mast and rigging broke,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I found myself in bed&mdash;and WOKE!</span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<h4>PRINTED BY GARDEN CITY PRESS,<br />
-LETCH WORTH, ENGLAND.</h4>
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