Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

<h2><SPAN name="MY_SHIP_AND_I" id="MY_SHIP_AND_I"></SPAN>MY SHIP AND I.</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">O it's I that am the captain of a tidy little ship,<br/></span> <span class="i14">Of a ship that goes a-sailing on the pond;<br/></span> <span class="i12">And my ship it keeps a-turning all around and all about;<br/></span> <span class="i12">But when I'm a little older, I shall find the secret out<br/></span> <span class="i14">How to send my vessel sailing on beyond.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm,<br/></span> <span class="i14">And the dolly I intend to come alive;<br/></span> <span class="i12">And with him beside to help me, it's a-sailing I shall go,<br/></span> <span class="i12">It's a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow<br/></span> <span class="i12">And the vessel goes a divie-divie dive.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">O it's then you'll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds,<br/></span> <span class="i14">And you'll hear the water singing at the prow;<br/></span> <span class="i12">For beside the dolly sailor, I'm to voyage and explore,<br/></span> <span class="i12">To land upon the island where no dolly was before,<br/></span> <span class="i14">And to fire the penny cannon in the bow.<br/></span></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_018.jpg" width-obs="150" height-obs="253" alt="Illustration" /></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />