Emerald Story Book

<h3><SPAN name="LITTLE_BOY_BLUE">LITTLE BOY BLUE</SPAN></h3> <p class="center"><span class="smcap">Alfred Noyes</span></p> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse indent0">Little Boy Blue, come blow up your horn,</div> <div class="verse indent2">Summon the day of deliverance in;</div> <div class="verse indent0">We are weary of bearing the burden of scorn,</div> <div class="verse indent2">As we yearn for the home that we never shall win;</div> <div class="verse indent0">For here there is weeping and sorrow and sin,</div> <div class="verse indent2">And the poor and the weak are a spoil for the strong!</div> <div class="verse indent0">Ah! when shall the song of the ransomed begin?</div> <div class="verse indent2">The world is grown weary with waiting so long.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse indent0">Little Boy Blue, you are gallant and brave,</div> <div class="verse indent2">There was never a doubt in those clear bright eyes:</div> <div class="verse indent0">Come, challenge the grim dark Gates of the Grave</div> <div class="verse indent2">As the skylark sings to those infinite skies!</div> <div class="verse indent0">This world is a dream, say the old and the wise,</div> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN id="Page_371"></SPAN>[371]</span> <div class="verse indent2">And its rainbows arise o’er the false and the true</div> <div class="verse indent0">But the mists of the morning are made of our sighs,—</div> <div class="verse indent2">Ah, shatter them, scatter them, Little Boy Blue!</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse indent0">Little Boy Blue, if the child-heart knows,</div> <div class="verse indent2">Sound but a note as a little one may,</div> <div class="verse indent0">And the thorns of the desert shall bloom with the rose,</div> <div class="verse indent2">And the Healer shall wipe all tears away;</div> <div class="verse indent0">Little Boy Blue, we are all astray,</div> <div class="verse indent2">The sheep’s in the meadow, the cows in the corn,</div> <div class="verse indent0">Ah, set the world right, as a little one may;</div> <div class="verse indent2">Little Boy Blue, come blow up your horn!</div> </div> </div></div> <p class="titlepage">THE END</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />