Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

<h2><SPAN name="BLOCK_CITY" id="BLOCK_CITY"></SPAN>BLOCK CITY</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">What are you able to build with your blocks?<br/></span> <span class="i12">Castles and palaces, temples and docks.<br/></span> <span class="i12">Rain may keep raining and others go roam,<br/></span> <span class="i12">But I can be happy and building at home.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,<br/></span> <span class="i12">There I'll establish a city for me:<br/></span> <span class="i12">A kirk and a mill and a palace beside,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And a harbor as well where my vessels may ride.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Great is the palace with pillar and wall,<br/></span> <span class="i12">A sort of a tower on the top of it all,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And steps coming down in an orderly way<br/></span> <span class="i12">To where my toy vessels lay safe in the bay.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">This one is sailing and that one is moored:<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</SPAN></span><span class="i12">Hark to the song of the sailors on board!<br/></span> <span class="i12">And see the steps of my palace, the kings<br/></span> <span class="i12">Coming and going with presents and things!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Now I have done with it, down let it go!<br/></span> <span class="i12">All in a moment the town is laid low.<br/></span> <span class="i12">Block upon block lying scattered and free,<br/></span> <span class="i12">What is there left of my town by the sea?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Yet as I saw it, I see it again,<br/></span> <span class="i12">The kirk and the palace, the ships and the men<br/></span> <span class="i12">And as long as I live and where'er I may be,<br/></span> <span class="i12">I'll always remember my town by the sea.<br/></span></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_005.jpg" width-obs="150" height-obs="242" alt="Illustration" /></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_028.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="144" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />