Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

<h2><SPAN name="GOOD_AND_BAD_CHILDREN" id="GOOD_AND_BAD_CHILDREN"></SPAN>GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Children, you are very little,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And your bones are very brittle;<br/></span> <span class="i12">If you would grow great and stately,<br/></span> <span class="i12">You must try to walk sedately.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">You must still be bright and quiet,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And content with simple diet;<br/></span> <span class="i12">And remain, through all bewild'ring,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Innocent and honest children.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Happy hearts and happy faces,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Happy play in grassy places&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i12">That was how, in ancient ages,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Children grew to kings and sages.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">But the unkind and the unruly,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And the sort who eat unduly,<br/></span> <span class="i12">They must never hope for glory&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i12">Theirs is quite a different story!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Cruel children, crying babies,<br/></span> <span class="i12">All grow up as geese and gabies,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Hated, as their age increases,<br/></span> <span class="i12">By their nephews and their nieces.<br/></span></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_064.jpg" width-obs="200" height-obs="235" alt="Illustration" /></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_065.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="232" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />