Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

<h2><SPAN name="PICTURE-BOOKS_IN_WINTER" id="PICTURE-BOOKS_IN_WINTER"></SPAN>PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Summer fading, winter comes&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i12">Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Window robins, winter rooks,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And the picture story-books.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Water now is turned to stone<br/></span> <span class="i12">Nurse and I can walk upon;<br/></span> <span class="i12">Still we find the flowing brooks<br/></span> <span class="i12">In the picture story-books.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">All the pretty things put by<br/></span> <span class="i12">Wait upon the childrens' eye,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Sheep and shepherds, trees and crooks,<br/></span> <span class="i12">In the picture story-books.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">We may see how all things are,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Seas and cities, near and far,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And the flying fairies' looks,<br/></span> <span class="i12">In the picture story-books.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">How am I to sing your praise,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Happy chimney-corner days,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Sitting safe in nursery nooks,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Reading picture story-books?<br/></span></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_066.jpg" width-obs="200" height-obs="187" alt="Illustration" /></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_067.jpg" width-obs="450" height-obs="621" alt="Illustration" /></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</SPAN></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_055.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="154" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />