Rhymes For The Young Folk

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/cover.jpg" width-obs="611" height-obs="800" alt="cover" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div class='maintitle'>RHYMES<br/> FOR THE YOUNG FOLK.</div> <hr class="chap" /> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="frontispiece"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_002.jpg" width-obs="500" height-obs="485" alt="boy and girl looking out window" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <h1>RHYMES<br/> FOR THE<br/> YOUNG FOLK</h1> <div class='center'> <small>BY</small><br/> <span class='author'>WILLIAM ALLINGHAM</span><br/> <br/> <small>WITH PICTURES BY</small><br/> HELEN ALLINGHAM, KATE GREENAWAY,<br/> CAROLINE PATERSON, AND HARRY FURNISS<br/> <br/> <small>ENGRAVED AND PRINTED BY EDMUND EVANS</small><br/> <br/> <br/> CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED,<br/> <small>LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK AND MELBOURN</small>E<br/></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div class='center'> <b>To</b><br/> <br/> <span class="smcap">GERALD, EVA, and LITTLE HENRY,</span><br/> <br/> <span class="smcap">and Others like them</span>,<br/> <br/> <span class="smcap">this booklet</span><br/> <br/> <span class="smcap">is lovingly inscribed.</span><br/></div> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="THE_NEW_BOOK"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_005.jpg" width-obs="566" height-obs="585" alt="three children sitting on bench looking at book" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p class='poem'> <i>Green Hills, Blue Mountains, Rocks and Streams,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Birds, Woodland, Starry-Night, Sea-Foam,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Flowers, Fairies, Children, Music, Dreams,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">A Book, a Garden-Chair&mdash;Sweet Home!</span></i><br/></p> <hr class="chap" /> <h2>Introduction.</h2> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="INTRODUCTION"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_007.jpg" width-obs="550" height-obs="477" alt="Man and child sittin gon ground in forest, man pionting out fairy" /></div> <h2>CONTENTS.</h2> <div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> <tr><td align="left">&nbsp;</td> <td align="right"><small>PAGE</small></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Fairies</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_15">15</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Elf Singing</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_18">18</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Fairy King</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_20">20</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Chorus of Fairies</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_23">23</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Robin Redbreast</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_24">24</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Amy Margaret</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_26">26</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Jingle Jangle</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_29">29</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Dreaming</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_30">30</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">I Love You, Dear</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_32">32</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Seasons</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_34">34</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Cat and the Dog</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_36">36</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Here and There</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_37">37</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Bird</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_41">41</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Wishing</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_42">42</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">I saw a Little Birdie Fly</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_44">44</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">A Mountain Round</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_47">47</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Lepracaun</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_48">48</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Yes or No?</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_53">53</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Sleeping</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_54">54</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">A Swing Song</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_56">56</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Birds' Names</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_58">58</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Down on the Shore</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_60">60</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Bubble</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_62">62</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Nick Spence</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_65">65</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Ambition</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_66">66</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Ball</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_69">69</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Riding</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_70">70</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Tom Cricket</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_72">72</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Year of Hardships</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_74">74</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">A Riddle</span></td> <td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_75">75</SPAN></td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_009.jpg" width-obs="272" height-obs="62" alt="flower stalk" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <h2>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.</h2> <div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Illustration and authors"> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#frontispiece">Frontispiece</SPAN></span>: <i>The Bird</i></td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Helen Allingham.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#THE_NEW_BOOK">The New Book</SPAN></span></td> <td align="center"><span class="smcap">Do.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#INTRODUCTION">Introduction</SPAN></span>: <i>The Child and the Fairy</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td> <td align="center"><span class="smcap">Do.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#THE_ELF_SINGING">The Elf Singing</SPAN></span> (<i>Two Designs</i>)</td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Caroline Paterson.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#THE_FAIRY_KING">The Fairy King</SPAN></span></td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Harry Furniss.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#AMY_MARGARET">Amy Margaret</SPAN></span></td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Helen Allingham.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#JINGLE_JANGLE">Jingle Jangle</SPAN></span></td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Caroline Paterson.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#DREAMING">Dreaming</SPAN></span></td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Helen Allingham.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#I_LOVE_YOU_DEAR">I Love You, Dear</SPAN></span></td> <td align="center"><span class="smcap">Do.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#HERE_AND_THERE">Here and There</SPAN></span> (<i>Ten Designs</i>)</td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Caroline Paterson.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#WISHING">Wishing</SPAN></span></td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Helen Allingham.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#I_SAW_A_LITTLE_BIRDIE_FLY">I Saw a Little Birdie Fly</SPAN></span></td> <td align="center"><span class="smcap">Do.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#THE_LEPRACAUN">The Lepracaun</SPAN></span></td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Harry Furniss.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#YES_OR_NO">Yes or No?</SPAN></span></td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Caroline Paterson.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#SLEEPING">Sleeping</SPAN></span></td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Helen Allingham.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#A_SWING_SONG">A Swing Song</SPAN></span></td> <td align="center"><span class="smcap">Do.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#THE_BUBBLE">The Bubble</SPAN></span></td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Kate Greenaway.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#NICK_SPENCE">Nick Spence</SPAN></span></td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Helen Allingham.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#AMBITION">Ambition</SPAN></span></td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Kate Greenaway.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#THE_BALL">The Ball</SPAN></span></td> <td align="center"><span class="smcap">W. A.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#THE_YEAR_OF_HARDSHIPS">The Year of Hardships</SPAN></span></td> <td align="center"><span class="smcap">Do.</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap"><SPAN href="#A_RIDDLE">A Riddle</SPAN></span></td> <td align="left"><span class="smcap">Helen Allingham.</span></td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_011.jpg" width-obs="233" height-obs="82" alt="flowerstalk" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_013.jpg" width-obs="162" height-obs="190" alt="flower" /></div> <h2>THE FAIRIES.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">Up</span> the airy mountain,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Down the rushy glen,</span></div> <div class='verse'>We daren't go a-hunting</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">For fear of little men;</span></div> <div class='verse'>Wee folk, good folk,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Trooping all together;</span></div> <div class='verse'>Green jacket, red cap,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And white owl's feather!</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Down along the rocky shore</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Some make their home,</span></div> <div class='verse'>They live on crispy pancakes</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of yellow tide-foam;</span></div> <div class='verse'>Some in the reeds</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of the black mountain-lake,</span></div> <div class='verse'>With frogs for their watch-dogs,</div> <div class='verse'><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</SPAN></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">All night awake.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>High on the hill-top</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">The old King sits;</span></div> <div class='verse'>He is now so old and gray</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">He's nigh lost his wits.</span></div> <div class='verse'>With a bridge of white mist</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Columbkill he crosses,</span></div> <div class='verse'>On his stately journeys</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">From Slieveleague to Rosses;</span></div> <div class='verse'>Or going up with music</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">On cold starry nights,</span></div> <div class='verse'>To sup with the Queen</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of the gay Northern Lights.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>They stole little Bridget</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">For seven years long;</span></div> <div class='verse'>When she came down again</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Her friends were all gone.</span></div> <div class='verse'>They took her lightly back,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Between the night and morrow,</span></div> <div class='verse'>They thought that she was fast asleep,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">But she was dead with sorrow.</span></div> <div class='verse'>They have kept her ever since</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Deep within the lake,</span></div> <div class='verse'>On a bed of flag-leaves,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Watching till she wake.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>By the craggy hill-side,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Through the mosses bare,</span></div> <div class='verse'>They have planted thorn-trees</div> <div class='verse'><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</SPAN></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">For pleasure here and there.</span></div> <div class='verse'>Is any man so daring</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">As dig them up in spite,</span></div> <div class='verse'>He shall find their sharpest thorns</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">In his bed at night.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Up the airy mountain,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Down the rushy glen,</span></div> <div class='verse'>We daren't go a-hunting</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">For fear of little men;</span></div> <div class='verse'>Wee folk, good folk,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Trooping all together;</span></div> <div class='verse'>Green jacket, red cap,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And white owl's feather!</span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_015.jpg" width-obs="189" height-obs="284" alt="flower again" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</SPAN></span></p> <div class='center'><SPAN name="THE_ELF_SINGING"></SPAN><table class="elf1" summary="creepy hairy elf behind tree and poem start"> <tr><td align='left'><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> <div class='poemtitle1'>THE ELF SINGING.</div> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;"><span class="smcap">An</span> Elf sat on a twig,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">He was not very big,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">He sang a little song,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">He did not think it wrong;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 48%;">But he was on a Wizard's ground,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">Who hated all sweet sound.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">Elf, Elf,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">Take care of yourself!</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">He's coming behind you,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">To seize you and bind you,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">And stifle your song.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">The Wizard! the Wizard!</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">He changes his shape</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">In crawling along,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">An ugly old ape,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">A poisonous lizard,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">A spotted spider,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">A wormy glider,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">The Wizard! the Wizard!</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">He's up on the bough,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">He'll bite through your gizzard</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 50%;">He's close to you now!</span><br/> <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/></td> </tr></table></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</SPAN></span></p> <div class='center'> <table class="elf2" summary="now beautiful fairy flying from large snake and mole waiting below and end of poem"> <tr><td align='left'><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> <span style="margin-left: 38%;">The Elf went on with his song,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 38%;">It grew more clear and strong,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 42%;">It lifted him into air,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 45%;">He floated singing away,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 42%;">With rainbows in his hair;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 33%;">While the Wizard-worm from his creep</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 42%;">Made a sudden leap,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 42%;">Fell down into a hole,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 32%;">And, ere his magic word he could say,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 42%;">Was eaten up by a Mole.</span><br/> <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/></td> </tr></table></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>THE FAIRY KING.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><i>"High on the hill-top</i></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>The old King sits;</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><i>He is now so old and gray</i></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>He's nigh lost his wits."</i></span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">The</span> Fairy King was old.</div> <div class='verse'>He met the Witch of the Wold.</div> <div class='verse'>"Ah ha, King!" quoth she,</div> <div class='verse'>"Now thou art old like me."</div> <div class='verse'>"Nay, Witch!" quoth he,</div> <div class='verse'>"I am not old like thee."</div> </div><div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>The King took off his crown,</div> <div class='verse'>It almost bent him down;</div> <div class='verse'>His age was too great</div> <div class='verse'>To carry such a weight.</div> <div class='verse'>"Give it here!" she said,</div> <div class='verse'>And clapt it on her head.</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Crown sank to ground;</div> <div class='verse'>The Witch no more was found.</div> <div class='verse'>Then sweet spring-songs were sung,</div> <div class='verse'>The Fairy King grew young,</div> <div class='verse'>His crown was made of flowers,</div> <div class='verse'>He lived in woods and bowers.</div> </div></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="THE_FAIRY_KING"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_019.jpg" width-obs="582" height-obs="790" alt="king and a crone" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</SPAN><br/><SPAN name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>CHORUS OF FAIRIES.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">Golden</span>, golden,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Light unfolding,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Busily, merrily, work and play,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">In flowery meadows,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">And forest shadows,</span></div> <div class='verse'>All the length of a Summer day!</div> <div class='verse'>All the length of a Summer day!</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Sprightly, lightly,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Sing we rightly,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Moments brightly hurry away;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Fruit-tree blossoms,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">And roses' bosoms,&mdash;</span></div> <div class='verse'>Clear blue sky of a Summer day!</div> <div class='verse'>Dear blue sky of a Summer day!</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Springlets, brooklets,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Greeny nooklets,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Hill and Valley, and salt sea-spray,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Comrade rovers,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Fairy lovers,&mdash;</span></div> <div class='verse'>All the length of a Summer day</div> <div class='verse'>All the livelong Summer day!</div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_021.jpg" width-obs="165" height-obs="90" alt="flower" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_022.jpg" width-obs="354" height-obs="62" alt="flowers" /></div> <h2>ROBIN REDBREAST.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">Good-bye</span>, good-bye to Summer!</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">For Summer's nearly done;</span></div> <div class='verse'>The garden smiling faintly,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Cool breezes in the sun;</span></div> <div class='verse'>Our Thrushes now are silent,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Our Swallows flown away,&mdash;</span></div> <div class='verse'>But Robin's here, in coat of brown,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">With ruddy breast-knot gay.</span></div> <div class='verse'>Robin, Robin Redbreast,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">O Robin dear!</span></div> <div class='verse'>Robin singing sweetly</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">In the falling of the year.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Bright yellow, red, and orange,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">The leaves come down in hosts;</span></div> <div class='verse'>The trees are Indian Princes,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">But soon they'll turn to Ghosts;</span></div> <div class='verse'>The scanty pears and apples</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Hang russet on the bough,</span></div> <div class='verse'>It's Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">'Twill soon be Winter now.</span></div> <div class='verse'>Robin, Robin Redbreast,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">O Robin dear!</span></div> <div class='verse'>And welaway! my Robin,</div> <div class='verse'><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</SPAN></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">For pinching times are near.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>The fireside for the Cricket,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">The wheatstack for the Mouse,</span></div> <div class='verse'>When trembling night-winds whistle</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And moan all round the house;</span></div> <div class='verse'>The frosty ways like iron,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">The branches plumed with snow,&mdash;</span></div> <div class='verse'>Alas! in Winter, dead and dark,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where can poor Robin go?</span></div> <div class='verse'>Robin, Robin Redbreast,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">O Robin dear,</span></div> <div class='verse'>And a crumb of bread for Robin,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">His little heart to cheer.</span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_023.jpg" width-obs="200" height-obs="331" alt="Robin on gate post" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>AMY MARGARET.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">Amy Margaret's</span> five years old,</div> <div class='verse'>Amy Margaret's hair is gold,</div> <div class='verse'>Dearer twenty-thousand-fold</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Than gold, is Amy Margaret.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>"Amy" is friend, is "Margaret"</div> <div class='verse'>The pearl for crown or carkanet?</div> <div class='verse'>Or peeping daisy, Summer's pet?</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Which are you, Amy Margaret?</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>A friend, a daisy, and a pearl;</div> <div class='verse'>A kindly, simple, precious girl,&mdash;</div> <div class='verse'>Such, howsoe'er the world may twirl,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Be ever,&mdash;Amy Margaret!</span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_024.jpg" width-obs="98" height-obs="166" alt="flowers" /></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</SPAN></span></p> <hr class="chap" /> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="AMY_MARGARET"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_025.jpg" width-obs="360" height-obs="496" alt="girl" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</SPAN><br/><SPAN name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="JINGLE_JANGLE"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_027.jpg" width-obs="536" height-obs="287" alt="Mother dealing with four arguing children" /></div> <h2>JINGLE, JANGLE!</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><span class="smcap">Jingle</span>, jangle!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Riot and wrangle!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">What shall we do</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">With people like you?</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Here's Jingle!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">There's Jangle!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Here's Riot!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">There's Wrangle!</span></div> <div class='verse'>Never was seen such a turbulent crew!</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><i>You</i>, north must go</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">To a hut of snow;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><i>You</i>, south, in a trice,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">To an island of spice;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><i>You</i>, off to Persia</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">And sit on a hill,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><i>You</i>, to that chair</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">And be five minutes' still!</span></div> </div></div> </div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="DREAMING"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_028.jpg" width-obs="300" height-obs="278" alt="open window looking at moon in sky" /></div> <h2>DREAMING.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">A strange</span> little Dream</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">On a long star-beam</span></div> <div class='verse'>Ran down from the midnight skies,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">To curly-hair'd Fred</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Asleep in his bed,</span></div> <div class='verse'>With the lids on his merry blue eyes.</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Under each lid</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">The thin Dream slid,</span></div> <div class='verse'>And spread to a picture inside,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">A new World there,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Most strange and rare,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</SPAN></span>Tho' just by our garden-side.</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Rivers and Rocks,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">And a Treasure-Box,</span></div> <div class='verse'>And Floating in Air without wings,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">And the Speaking Beast,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">And a Royal Feast,</span></div> <div class='verse'>My chair beside the King's;</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">A Land of Flowers,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">And of lofty Towers</span></div> <div class='verse'>Carved over in marble white</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">With living Shapes</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Of Panthers and Apes</span></div> <div class='verse'>That gambol in ceaseless flight;</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">And a Cellar small</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">With its Cave in the Wall</span></div> <div class='verse'>Stretching many a mile underground!</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">And the Rope from the Moon!&mdash;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Fred woke too soon,</span></div> <div class='verse'>For its end could never be found.</div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_029.jpg" width-obs="143" height-obs="170" alt="flower" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="center"><SPAN name="I_LOVE_YOU_DEAR"></SPAN> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="'I love you dear' poem and illustrations"> <tr><td align="left"><ANTIMG src="images/i_030a.jpg" width-obs="178" height-obs="285" alt="bluebells" /> </td> <td align="left"> <div class='poemtitle2'>I LOVE YOU, DEAR.</div> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">I love</span> you, Dear, I love you, Dear,</div> <div class='verse'>You can't think how I love you, Dear!</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Supposing I</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Were a Butterfly,</span></div> <div class='verse'>I'd waver around and above you, Dear.</div> </td> <td align="left"><ANTIMG src="images/i_030b.jpg" width-obs="61" height-obs="52" alt="butterfly" /> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left"> <div class='verse'>A long way off I spied you, Dear,</div> <div class='verse'>No bonnet or hat could hide you, Dear,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">If I were a Bird,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Believe my word,</span></div> <div class='verse'>I'd sing every day beside you, Dear.</div> </td> <td align="left">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">&nbsp;</td> <td align="center"><ANTIMG src="images/i_030c.jpg" width-obs="130" height-obs="133" alt="bird" /> </td> <td align="left">&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left"> <div class='verse'>When you're away I miss you, Dear,</div> <div class='verse'>And now you're here I'll kiss you, Dear,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">And beg you will take</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">This flow'r for my sake,</span></div> <div class='verse'>And my love along with this, you Dear!</div> </td> <td align="left"><ANTIMG src="images/i_030d.jpg" width-obs="74" height-obs="111" alt="violet" /> </td></tr> </table></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_031_music.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="707" alt="music" /></div> <div class="center"><small>[<i>Transcriber's Note: You can play this music (MIDI file) by clicking</i> <SPAN href="music/i_love_you_dear.mid">here</SPAN>.]</small></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_032.jpg" width-obs="96" height-obs="113" alt="flower" /></div> <h2>SEASONS.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">In</span> Spring-time, the Forest,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">In Summer, the Sea,</span></div> <div class='verse'>In Autumn, the Mountains,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">In Winter,&mdash;ah me!</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>How gay, the old branches</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">A-swarm with new buds,</span></div> <div class='verse'>The primrose and bluebell</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Fresh-blown in the woods,</span></div> <div class='verse'>All green things unfolding,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where merry birds sing!</span></div> <div class='verse'>I love in the Woodlands</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">To wander in Spring.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>What joy, when the Sea-waves,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">In mirth and in might,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Spread purple in shadow,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Flash white into light!</span></div> <div class='verse'>The gale fills the sail,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the gull flies away;</span></div> <div class='verse'>In crimson and gold</div> <div class='verse'><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</SPAN></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Sets the long Summer Day.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>O pride! on the Mountains</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">To leave earth below;</span></div> <div class='verse'>The great slopes of heather,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">One broad purple glow;</span></div> <div class='verse'>The loud-roaring torrent</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Leaps, bound after bound,</span></div> <div class='verse'>To plains of gold Autumn,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">With mist creeping round</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Ah, Wind, is it Winter?</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Yes, Winter is here;</span></div> <div class='verse'>With snow on the meadow,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And ice on the mere.</span></div> <div class='verse'>The daylight is short,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">But the firelight is long;</span></div> <div class='verse'>Our skating's good sport;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Then story and song.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>In Spring-time, the Forest,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">In Summer, the Sea,</span></div> <div class='verse'>In Autumn, the Mountains,&mdash;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And Winter has glee.</span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_033.jpg" width-obs="181" height-obs="156" alt="flowers" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>THE CAT AND THE DOG.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">There</span> once lived a Man, a Cat, and a Dog,</div> <div class='verse'>And the Man built a house with stone and log.</div> <div class='verse'>"If you'll help to take care of this house with me,</div> <div class='verse'>One indoors, one out, your places must be."</div> <div class='verse'>Said both together, "Indoors I'll stay!"</div> <div class='verse'>And they argued the matter for half-a-day.</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>"Come, let us sing for it!" purrs the Cat;</div> <div class='verse'>"No!" barks the Dog, "I won't do that."</div> <div class='verse'>"Come, let us fight for it!" growls Bow-wow;</div> <div class='verse'>"Nay!" says Pussy, "mee-ow, mee-ow!"</div> <div class='verse'>"Well, let us race for it!"&mdash;said and done.</div> <div class='verse'>The course is mark'd out, and away they run.</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Puss bounded off; the Dog ran fast;</div> <div class='verse'>Quickly was Puss overtaken and pass'd;</div> <div class='verse'>But a Beggar who under the hedge did lie</div> <div class='verse'>Struck the poor Dog as he gallop'd by</div> <div class='verse'>A blow with his staff, and lessen'd his pace</div> <div class='verse'>To a limp: so Pussy won the race.</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>The Beggar went on his way to beg;</div> <div class='verse'>Dog was cured of his limping leg;</div> <div class='verse'>And Cat keeps the inside of the house,</div> <div class='verse'>Watching it well from rat and mouse,</div> <div class='verse'>Dog keeps the outside, ever since then,</div> <div class='verse'>And always barks at beggar-men.</div> </div></div> </div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="HERE_AND_THERE"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_035a.jpg" width-obs="538" height-obs="280" alt="One girl conducting a group of children in song" /></div> <h2>HERE AND THERE.</h2> <p class='center'>(A JUVENILE CHORUS.)</p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_035b.jpg" width-obs="228" height-obs="228" alt="girl in forest" /></div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_035c_music.jpg" width-obs="560" height-obs="251" alt="music" /></div> <div class="center"><small>[<i>Transcriber's Note: You can play this music (MIDI file) by clicking</i> <SPAN href="music/here_and_there.mid">here</SPAN>.]</small></div> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'>Where's Lucy? where's Lucy?</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Far, far in the wood,</span></div> <div class='verse'>With wild birds for playmates,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And beechnuts for food?</span></div> </div> <div class='center'><span class="smcap">Chorus.</span></div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><i>No, here she is! here she is!</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>Happy and gay,</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5.5em;"><i>With singing and ringing</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>To join in our lay.</i></span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="poem and images"> <tr><td align="left"><p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</SPAN></span></p> <ANTIMG src="images/i_036a.jpg" width-obs="178" height-obs="174" alt="boy walking in snow" /> </td><td align="left"><div class='verse'>Where's Gerald? where's Gerald?</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">He's out in the snow;</span></div> <div class='verse'>The stars shining keenly,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">The cold wind doth blow.</span></div> <br/> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><i>No, here he is! here he is!</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>Happy and gay;</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5.5em;"><i>With singing and ringing</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>To join in our lay!</i></span></div> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><div class='verse'>Where's Evey? where's Evey?</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">She's lost in the fog;</span></div> <div class='verse'>Go seek her, go find her,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">With man and with dog.</span></div> <br/> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><i>No, here she is! here she is!</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>Happy and gay;</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5.5em;"><i>With singing and ringing,</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>To join in our lay!</i></span></div> </td><td align="left"><ANTIMG src="images/i_036b.jpg" width-obs="178" height-obs="181" alt="girl in fog" /> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><ANTIMG src="images/i_036c.jpg" width-obs="177" height-obs="174" alt="boy in small boat" /> </td><td align="left"><div class='verse'>Where's Henry? where's Henry?</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Poor Henry's afloat;</span></div> <div class='verse'>The sea-waves all round him,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">High tossing his boat.</span></div> <br/> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><i>No, here he is! here he is!</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>Happy and gay;</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5.5em;"><i>With singing and ringing</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>To join in our lay!</i></span></div> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</SPAN></span></p> <div class='verse'>Where's Charley? where's Charley?</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">In China dwells he;</span></div> <div class='verse'>He wears a long pig-tail,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Perpetually drinks tea.</span></div> <br/> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><i>No, here he is! here he is!</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>Happy and gay;</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5.5em;"><i>With singing and ringing,</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>To join in our lay!</i></span></div> </td><td align="left"><ANTIMG src="images/i_037a.jpg" width-obs="168" height-obs="172" alt="boy drinkiing tea" /> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><ANTIMG src="images/i_037b.jpg" width-obs="174" height-obs="174" alt="boy in palm tree above lion" /> </td><td align="left"><div class='verse'>Where's Johnny? where's Johnny?</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">In Nubia, I know;</span></div> <div class='verse'>He has climb'd a tall palm-tree,&mdash;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">A lion's below.</span></div> <br/> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><i>No, here he is! here he is!</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>Happy and gay;</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5.5em;"><i>With singing and ringing,</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>To join in our lay!</i></span></div> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><div class='verse'>Where's Mary? where's Mary?</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Young Mary's asleep;</span></div> <div class='verse'>And round her white pillow</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">The little dreams creep.</span></div> <br/> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><i>No, here she is! here she is!</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>Happy and gay;</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5.5em;"><i>With singing and ringing,</i></span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>To join in our lay!</i></span></div> </td><td align="left"><ANTIMG src="images/i_037c.jpg" width-obs="172" height-obs="171" alt="girl asleep" /> </td></tr> <tr><td align="center" colspan='2'><p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</SPAN></span></p> <div class='poem'>Where's Bertha? where's Bertha?<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">She has wings&mdash;she can fly!</span><br/> She has flown to the bright moon&mdash;<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Look up there and spy!</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;"><i>No, here she is! here she is!</i></span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>Happy and gay;</i></span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 5.5em;"><i>With sinking and ringing,</i></span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><i>To join in our lay!</i></span><br/></div> </td></tr> <tr><td align="center" colspan='2'><ANTIMG src="images/i_038a.jpg" width-obs="173" height-obs="172" alt="girl looking out window" /> </td></tr> </table></div> <p class='center'>[AD INFINITUM.]</p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_038.jpg" width-obs="543" height-obs="246" alt="conducting girl and rest pointing to one girl" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>THE BIRD.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'>"<span class="smcap">Birdie</span>, Birdie, will you pet?</div> <div class='verse'>Summer-time is far away yet,</div> <div class='verse'>You'll have silken quilts and a velvet bed,</div> <div class='verse'>And a pillow of satin for your head!"</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>"I'd rather sleep in the ivy wall;</div> <div class='verse'>No rain comes through, tho' I hear it fall;</div> <div class='verse'>The sun peeps gay at dawn of day,</div> <div class='verse'>And I sing, and wing away, away!"</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>"O Birdie, Birdie, will you pet?</div> <div class='verse'>Diamond-stones and amber and jet</div> <div class='verse'>We'll string for a necklace fair and fine</div> <div class='verse'>To please this pretty bird of mine!"</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>"O thanks for diamonds, and thanks for jet,</div> <div class='verse'>But here is something daintier yet,&mdash;</div> <div class='verse'>A feather-necklace round and round,</div> <div class='verse'>That I wouldn't sell for a thousand pound!"</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>"O Birdie, Birdie, won't you pet?</div> <div class='verse'>We'll buy you a dish of silver fret,</div> <div class='verse'>A golden cup and an ivory seat,</div> <div class='verse'>And carpets soft beneath your feet!"</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>"Can running water be drunk from gold?</div> <div class='verse'>Can a silver dish the forest hold?</div> <div class='verse'>A rocking twig is the finest chair,</div> <div class='verse'>And the softest paths lie through the air,&mdash;</div> <div class='verse'>Good-bye, good-bye to my lady fair!"</div> </div></div> </div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>WISHING.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">Ring-ting!</span> I wish I were a Primrose,</div> <div class='verse'>A bright yellow Primrose blowing in the Spring!</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">The stooping boughs above me,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">The wandering bee to love me,</span></div> <div class='verse'>The fern and moss to creep across,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">And the Elm-tree for our king!</span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_040a.jpg" width-obs="204" height-obs="237" alt="flowers" /></div> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'>Nay&mdash;stay! I wish I were an Elm-tree,</div> <div class='verse'>A great lofty Elm-tree, with green leaves gay!</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">The winds would set them dancing,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">The sun and moonshine glancing,</span></div> <div class='verse'>The Birds would house among the boughs,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">And sweetly sing!</span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figright"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_040b.jpg" width-obs="114" height-obs="209" alt="flying birds" /></div> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'>O&mdash;no! I wish I were a Robin,</div> <div class='verse'>A Robin or a little Wren, everywhere to go;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Through forest, field, or garden,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">And ask no leave or pardon,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Till Winter comes with icy thumbs</div> <div class='verse'><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</SPAN></span><span style="margin-left: 6em;">To ruffle up our wing.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Well&mdash;tell! Where should I fly to,</div> <div class='verse'>Where go to sleep in the dark wood or dell?</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Before a day was over,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Home comes the rover,</span></div> <div class='verse'>For Mother's kiss,&mdash;sweeter this</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">Than any other thing!</span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="WISHING"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_041.jpg" width-obs="517" height-obs="530" alt="seated mother holding child" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>I SAW A LITTLE BIRDIE FLY.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">I saw</span> a little Birdie fly,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Merrily piping came he;</span></div> <div class='verse'>"Whom d'ye sing to, Bird?" said I;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Sing?&mdash;I sing to Amy!"</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>"Very sweet you sing," I said;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Then," quoth he, "to pay me,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Give one little crumb of bread,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">A little smile from Amy."</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>"Just," he sings, "one little smile;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">O, a frown would slay me!</span></div> <div class='verse'>Thanks, and now I'm gone awhile,&mdash;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Fare-you-well, dear Amy!"</span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_042.jpg" width-obs="114" height-obs="187" alt="flower" /></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="I_SAW_A_LITTLE_BIRDIE_FLY"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_043.jpg" width-obs="495" height-obs="494" alt="girl seated on bench around a tree, reading" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</SPAN><br/><SPAN name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>A MOUNTAIN ROUND.</h2> <p class='center'>(<i>Tyrol.</i>)<br/><br/></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_045.jpg" width-obs="552" height-obs="624" alt="music" /></div> <div class="center"><small>[<i>Transcriber's Note: You can play this music (MIDI file) by clicking</i> <SPAN href="music/a_mounain_round.mid">here</SPAN>.]</small></div> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">Take</span> hands, merry neighbours, for dancing the round!</div> <div class='verse'>Moonlight is fair and delicious the air;</div> <div class='verse'>From valley to valley our music shall sound,</div> <div class='verse'>And startle the wolf in his lair.</div> <div class='verse'>From summits of snow to the forest below,</div> <div class='verse'>Let vulture and crow hear the echoes, O-ho! (O-ho!)</div> <div class='verse'>While shadow on meadow in dancing the round</div> <div class='verse'>Goes whirligig, pair after pair!</div> </div></div> </div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>THE LEPRACAUN;<br/> <small>OR,</small><br/> FAIRY SHOEMAKER.</h2> <h3>I.</h3> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">Little</span> Cowboy, what have you heard,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Up on the lonely rath's green mound?</span></div> <div class='verse'>Only the plaintive yellow bird</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Sighing in sultry fields around,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Chary, chary, chary, chee-ee!&mdash;</div> <div class='verse'>Only the grasshopper and the bee?&mdash;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">"Tip-tap, rip-rap,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Tick-a-tack-too!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Scarlet leather sewn together,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">This will make a shoe.</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Left, right, pull it tight;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Summer days are warm;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Underground in winter,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Laughing at the storm!"</span></div> <div class='verse'>Lay your ear close to the hill.</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Do you not catch the tiny clamour,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Busy click of an Elfin hammer,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Voice of the Lepracaun singing shrill</div> <div class='verse'>As he merrily plies his trade?</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">He's a span</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">And a quarter in height.</span></div> <div class='verse'>Get him in sight, hold him tight,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">And you're a made</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">Man!</span></div> </div></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</SPAN></span></p> <h3>II.</h3> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'>You watch your cattle the summer day,</div> <div class='verse'>Sup on potatoes, sleep in the hay:</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">How would you like to roll in your carriage,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Look for a Duchess's daughter in marriage?</span></div> <div class='verse'>Seize the Shoemaker&mdash;then you may!</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4.5em;">"Big boots a-hunting,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">Sandals in the hall,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">White for a wedding-feast,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">Pink for a ball.</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">This way, that way,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">So we make a shoe;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Getting rich every stitch,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">Tick-tack-too!"</span></div> <div class='verse'>Nine-and-ninety treasure-crocks</div> <div class='verse'>This keen miser-fairy hath,</div> <div class='verse'>Hid in mountains, woods, and rocks,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And where the cormorants build;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">From times of old</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Guarded by him;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Each of them fill'd</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Full to the brim</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 7em;">With gold!</span></div> </div></div> </div> <h3>III.</h3> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'>I caught him at work one day, myself,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">In the castle-ditch where foxglove grows,&mdash;</span></div> <div class='verse'>A wrinkled, wizen'd, and bearded Elf,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Spectacles stuck on his pointed nose,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</SPAN></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Silver buckles to his hose,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Leather apron-shoe in his lap&mdash;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4.5em;">"Rip-rap, tip-tap,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">Tack-tack-too!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">(A green cricket on my cap!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">Away the moth flew!)</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Buskins for a fairy prince,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">Brogues for his son,&mdash;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Pay me well, pay me well,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">When the job is done!"</span></div> <div class='verse'>The rogue was mine, beyond a doubt.</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">I stared at him, he stared at me;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Servant, Sir!" "Humph!" says he,</span></div> <div class='verse'>And pull'd a snuff-box out.</div> <div class='verse'>He took a long pinch, look'd better pleased,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">The queer little Lepracaun;</span></div> <div class='verse'>Offer'd the box with a whimsical grace,</div> <div class='verse'>Pouf! he flung the dust in my face,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">And, while I sneezed,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 7em;">Was gone!</span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_048.jpg" width-obs="212" height-obs="124" alt="flower" /></div> <div class='blockquot'> <p><i>Raths</i>, very ancient forts or entrenched dwelling-places, usually on hills; the remains of these are common in Ireland, and resemble what are called "Rings" in England.</p> <p><i>Yellow bird</i>, the yellow bunting, or "yorlin."</p> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="THE_LEPRACAUN"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_049.jpg" width-obs="447" height-obs="500" alt="person looking at leprachaun" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</SPAN><br/><SPAN name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="YES_OR_NO"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_051a.jpg" width-obs="552" height-obs="265" alt="Children leaving boy behind while he decides" /></div> <h2>YES OR NO?</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;"><span class="smcap">Yes</span> or No?</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Stay or Go?</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">He never can tell, he never will know!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">We must not wait,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">We'll all be late,</span></div> <div class='verse'>While Barnaby puzzles his queer little pate!</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">What do you say?</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Off and away!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Make up your mind to go or to stay.</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Fix on your plan,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Step out like a man,</span></div> <div class='verse'>And follow your nose as fast as you can!</div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_051b.jpg" width-obs="243" height-obs="65" alt="flowers" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="SLEEPING"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_052.jpg" width-obs="497" height-obs="408" alt="child asleep" /></div> <h2>SLEEPING.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">Do</span> all your sleeping at night,</div> <div class='verse'>For then niddy-noddy is right;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">But awake you must keep,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">And it won't do to sleep,</span></div> <div class='verse'>In the middle of broad daylight.</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>The sun at the end of the day</div> <div class='verse'>Takes his mighty great candle away;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">A curtain on high</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Is drawn over the sky,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</SPAN></span>And the stars peep thro' if they may.</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>There's the curtain of night over all,</div> <div class='verse'>There's our own window-curtain so small,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">And least in their size,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Over Emily's eyes</span></div> <div class='verse'>Her fringed little eyelids will fall.</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>She kneels at the side of her bed,</div> <div class='verse'>And softly her prayers are said;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Now, a kiss, my Dear;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Come, Angels, near,</span></div> <div class='verse'>And keep watch round the little one's bed.</div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_053.jpg" width-obs="232" height-obs="256" alt="vase of flowers" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>A SWING SONG.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;"><span class="smcap">Swing</span>, swing,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Sing, sing,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Here's my throne, and I am a King!</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Swing, sing,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Swing, sing,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Farewell earth, for I'm on the wing!</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Low, high,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Here I fly,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Like a bird through sunny sky;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Free, free,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Over the lea,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Over the mountain, over the sea!</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Up, down,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Up and down,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Which is the way to London Town?</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Where, where?</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Up in the air,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Close your eyes, and now you are there!</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Soon, soon,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Afternoon,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Over the sunset, over the moon;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Far, far,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Over all bar,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Sweeping on from star to star!</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">No, no,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Low, low,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Sweeping daisies with my toe.</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Slow, slow,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">To and fro,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Slow&mdash;&mdash;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4.5em;">slow&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 10em;">slow&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 16em;">slow.</span></div> </div></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="A_SWING_SONG"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_055_music.jpg" width-obs="551" height-obs="828" alt="music and illustration of girl on swing" /></div> <div class="center"><small>[<i>Transcriber's Note: You can play this music (MIDI file) by clicking</i> <SPAN href="music/swingsong.mid">here</SPAN>.]</small></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_056.jpg" width-obs="360" height-obs="123" alt="birdi in nest" /></div> <h2>BIRDS' NAMES.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">Of</span> Creatures with Feathers, come let us see</div> <div class='verse'>Which have names like you and me.</div> <div class='verse'>Hook-nosed Poll, that thinks herself pretty,</div> <div class='verse'>Everyone knows, of all birds most witty.</div> <div class='verse'>Friendly Daw, in suit of gray,</div> <div class='verse'>Ask him his name, and 'Jack!' he'll say.</div> <div class='verse'>Pert Philip Sparrow hopping you meet,</div> <div class='verse'>"Philip! Philip!"&mdash;in garden and street.</div> <div class='verse'>Bold Robin Redbreast perches near,</div> <div class='verse'>And sings his best in the fall of the year.</div> <div class='verse'>Grave Madge Owlet shuns the light,</div> <div class='verse'>And shouts "hoo! hoo!" in the woods at night.</div> <div class='verse'>Nightingale sweet, that May loves well,</div> <div class='verse'>Old Poets have call'd her Philomel,</div> <div class='verse'>But Philomelus, <i>he</i> sings best,</div> <div class='verse'>While <i>she</i> sits listening in her nest.</div> <div class='verse'>Darting Martin!&mdash;tell me why</div> <div class='verse'>They call you Martin, I know not, I;</div> <div class='verse'>Martin the black, under cottage eaves,</div> <div class='verse'><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</SPAN></span>Martin the small, in sandy caves.</div> <div class='verse'>Merry Willy Wagtail, what runs he takes!</div> <div class='verse'>Wherever he stops, his tail he shakes.</div> <div class='verse'>Head and tail little Jenny Wren perks,</div> <div class='verse'>As in and out of the hedge she jerks.</div> <div class='verse'>Brisk Tom Tit, the lover of trees,</div> <div class='verse'>Picks-off every fly and grub he sees.</div> <div class='verse'>Mag, the cunning chattering Pie,</div> <div class='verse'>Builds her home in a tree-top high,&mdash;</div> <div class='verse'>Mag, you're a terrible thief, O fie!</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Tom and Philip and Jenny and Polly,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Madge and Martin and Robin and Willy,</div> <div class='verse'>Philomelus and friendly Jack,&mdash;</div> <div class='verse'>Mag the rogue, half-white, half-black,</div> <div class='verse'>Stole an egg from every Bird;</div> <div class='verse'>Such an uproar was never heard;</div> <div class='verse'>All of them flew upon Mag together,</div> <div class='verse'>And pluck'd her naked of every feather.</div> <div class='verse'>"You're not a Bird!" they told her then,</div> <div class='verse'>"You may go away and live among men!"</div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_057.jpg" width-obs="184" height-obs="217" alt="holly sprig with berries" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_058.jpg" width-obs="355" height-obs="68" alt="flowers" /></div> <h2>DOWN ON THE SHORE.</h2> <h3>I.</h3> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;"><span class="smcap">Down</span> on the shore, on the sunny shore!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Where the salt smell cheers the land;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where the tide moves bright under boundless light,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">And the surge on the glittering strand;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where the children wade in the shallow pools,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Or run from the froth in play;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">While the swift little boats with milk-white wings</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Are crossing the sapphire bay,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the ship in full sail, with a fortunate gale</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Holds proudly on her way;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where the nets are spread on the grass to dry,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And asleep, hard by, the fishermen lie,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Under the tent of the warm blue sky,</span></div> <div class='verse'>With the hushing wave on its golden floor</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">To sing their lullaby.</span></div> </div></div> </div> <h3>II.</h3> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Down on the shore, on the stormy shore!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Beset by a growling sea,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Whose mad waves leap on the rocky steep</span></div> <div class='verse'><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</SPAN></span><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Like wolves up a traveller's tree:</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where the foam flies wide, and an angry blast</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Blows the curlew off, with a screech;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where the brown sea-wrack, torn up by the roots,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Is flung out of fishes' reach;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the tall ship rolls on the hidden shoals,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">And scatters her planks on the beach;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where slate and straw through the village spin,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And a cottage fronts the fiercest din</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">With a sailor's wife sitting sad within,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Hearkening the wind and the water's roar,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Till at last her tears begin.</span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_059.jpg" width-obs="99" height-obs="172" alt="honeysuckle" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>THE BUBBLE.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">See</span>, the pretty Planet!</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Floating sphere!</span></div> <div class='verse'>Faintest breeze will fan it</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Far or near;</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>World as light as feather;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Moonshine rays,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Rainbow tints, together,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">As it plays;</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Drooping, sinking, failing,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Nigh to earth,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Mounting, whirling, sailing,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Full of mirth;</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Life there, welling, flowing,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Waving round;</span></div> <div class='verse'>Pictures coming, going,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Without sound.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Quick now! be this airy</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Globe repell'd!</span></div> <div class='verse'>Never can the fairy</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Star be held.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Touch'd&mdash;it in a twinkle</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Disappears!</span></div> <div class='verse'>Leaving but a sprinkle,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">As of tears.</span></div> </div></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="THE_BUBBLE"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_061.jpg" width-obs="444" height-obs="550" alt="two girls looknig at bubble" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</SPAN><br/><SPAN name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="NICK_SPENCE"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_063.jpg" width-obs="568" height-obs="398" alt="standing man talking to man sitting on ground leaning against fence" /></div> <h2>NICK SPENCE.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">Nick Spence</span>, Nick Spence,</div> <div class='verse'>Sold the Cow for sixpence!</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">When his Master scolded him,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Nicky didn't care.</span></div> <div class='verse'>Put him in the farmyard,</div> <div class='verse'>The stableyard, the stackyard,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Send him to the pigsty,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">And Johnny to the fair!</span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_063b.jpg" width-obs="231" height-obs="84" alt="flower on stalk" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>AMBITION.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">The</span> Sea! as smooth as silk,</div> <div class='verse'>And the froth of it like new milk,</div> <div class='verse'>And the sky a wonderful blue,</div> <div class='verse'>The cliff harebells have it too,</div> <div class='verse'>And scatter'd all over the shore</div> <div class='verse'>A thousand Children or more!</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Suppose we join, one-will'd,</div> <div class='verse'>A City of Sand to build,</div> <div class='verse'>With a rampart broad and strong</div> <div class='verse'>From rock to rock along,</div> <div class='verse'>Solid and firm enough</div> <div class='verse'>To last till the sea grows rough</div> <div class='verse'>And the days turn chilly and short,</div> <div class='verse'>The end of our seaside sport,</div> <div class='verse'>When all must bundle and pack</div> <div class='verse'>And swift in the train go back,</div> <div class='verse'>Big folk and little folk,</div> <div class='verse'>To London lamps and smoke?</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Let's draw out our plan to-night,</div> <div class='verse'>Begin it with morning light.</div> <div class='verse'>We'll bring all the Children together</div> <div class='verse'>And build in the sweet sunny weather.</div> <div class='verse'>What use in a House of Sand?</div> <div class='verse'>But a City&mdash;that <i>would</i> be grand!</div> <div class='verse'>O yes, I am sure it will stand!</div> <div class='verse'>And I, who first thought of the thing,</div> <div class='verse'>Perhaps they will make me King?</div> </div></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="AMBITION"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_065.jpg" width-obs="459" height-obs="550" alt="children at seashore" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</SPAN><br/><SPAN name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>THE BALL.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">All</span> men, black, brown, red, yellow, white</div> <div class='verse'>Are brethren in their Father's sight.</div> <div class='verse'>To do each other good is right,</div> <div class='verse'>But not to wrangle, steal, or fight.</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>A thousand millions, young and old,</div> <div class='verse'>Some in the heat, some in the cold,</div> <div class='verse'>Upon this Ball of Earth are roll'd</div> <div class='verse'>Around the Sun's great flame of gold.</div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="THE_BALL"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_067.jpg" width-obs="451" height-obs="423" alt="earth in space" /></div> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'>And this great Sun is like indeed</div> <div class='verse'>One daisy in a daisied mead;</div> <div class='verse'>For <span class="smcap">God's</span> power doth all thought exceed.</div> <div class='verse'>And of us also He takes heed.</div> </div></div> </div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>RIDING.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">His</span> Lordship's Steed</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Of a noble breed</span></div> <div class='verse'>Is trotting it fleetly, fleetly,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Her Ladyship's pony,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sleek and bonny,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Cantering neatly, neatly.</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">How shall they pass</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">The Turf-Cadger's Ass,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Creels and all, creels and all?</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Man on him bumping,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Shouting and thumping,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Heels and all, heels and all!</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Lane is not wide,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">A hedge on each side,</span></div> <div class='verse'>The Ass is beginning to bray;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"Now," says my Lord,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">With an angry word,</span></div> <div class='verse'>"Fellow, get out of the way!"</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"Ha!" says the Cadger,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">As bold as a badger,</span></div> <div class='verse'>"This way is <i>my</i> way too!"</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Says the Lady mild,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">And sweetly smiled,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</SPAN></span>"My Friend, that's perfectly true."</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">The Cadger look'd round,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Then jump'd to the ground,</span></div> <div class='verse'>And into the hedge pull'd Neddy.</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"O thank you!" says she,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"Ax pardon!" says he,</span></div> <div class='verse'>And touch'd his old hat to the Lady.</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">His Lordship's Steed</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Of a noble breed</span></div> <div class='verse'>Went trotting it fleetly, fleetly,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Her Ladyship's pony,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sleek and bonny</span></div> <div class='verse'>Cantering neatly, neatly.</div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">The Cadger he rode</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">As well as he could,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Heels and all, heels and all,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Jolting and bumping,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Shouting and thumping,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Creels and all, creels and all.</div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_069.jpg" width-obs="125" height-obs="183" alt="flower" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_070.jpg" width-obs="118" height-obs="166" alt="rosebud branch" /></div> <h2>TOM CRICKET.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">Tom Cricket</span> he sat in his hole in the wall,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Close to the kitchen fire,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Up and down ran the Cockroaches all,</div> <div class='verse'>Red coats and black coats, great and small;</div> <div class='verse'>"Ho, Tom! our hearts are set on a ball,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">And your music we desire!"</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Tom sat in his hole, his horns hung out,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">He play'd away on his fiddle;</span></div> <div class='verse'>The Cockroaches danced in a rabble rout,</div> <div class='verse'>Scrambling and scurrying all about,</div> <div class='verse'>Tho' they had their own steps and figures no doubt,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Hands across, and down the middle.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>Till, "Stay!" says a Fat One,&mdash;"We're no Elves,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">To dance all night without stopping!</span></div> <div class='verse'>Now for supper!" They help'd themselves,</div> <div class='verse'>For the servants were gone to bed; on shelves</div> <div class='verse'>And tables they quested by tens and twelves,</div> <div class='verse'><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</SPAN></span><span style="margin-left: 4em;">And quick to the floor kept dropping.</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>As a Cockroach ran by, says Tom Cricket to him,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">"Fetch me up a piece of potato,</span></div> <div class='verse'>Good Sir!&mdash;to mix in the crowd I'm too slim."</div> <div class='verse'>Says Jack Cockroach, "I see you are proud and prim;</div> <div class='verse'>To eat alone is merely your whim,&mdash;</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Which I never will give way to!"</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>"Come down," says he, "and look out for your share!"</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">"I won't do that," says Tom Cricket.</span></div> <div class='verse'>And when for another dance they care,</div> <div class='verse'>And call upon Tom for a lively air,</div> <div class='verse'>They find he has drawn himself back in his lair.</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">"How shameful," they cry, "How wicked!"</span></div> </div> <div class='stanza'> <div class='verse'>"Let's fill up the mouth of his cave with soot,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Because he's behaved so badly!"</span></div> <div class='verse'>They ran up and down the wall to do't;</div> <div class='verse'>But ere half-done&mdash;a dreadful salute!</div> <div class='verse'>In came the Cook, and the Scullion to boot,</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">And off they all scampered madly.</span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_071.jpg" width-obs="285" height-obs="235" alt="flower and vine" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN name="THE_YEAR_OF_HARDSHIPS"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/i_072.jpg" width-obs="519" height-obs="158" alt="man hiking by craggy mountains" /></div> <h2>THE YEAR OF HARDSHIPS.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">January</span>,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">Bitter, very!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 5em;">February damp, Sir;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">March blows</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">On April's nose,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">May has caught the cramp, Sir;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 8em;">June,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Without a sun or moon!</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">July, August,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 6em;">Many a raw gust;</span></div> <div class='verse'>September, October, November, December,</div> <div class='verse'>Ten times worse than I ever remember.</div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">No apples, or hay, or honey, or corn;</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">I'm sure it wasn't a fat year.</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Whenever you and I were born,</span></div> <div class='verse'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Good-luck it wasn't in <i>that</i> year!</span></div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_072b.jpg" width-obs="202" height-obs="128" alt="flower" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>A RIDDLE.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class='verse'><span class="smcap">What</span> I say you'll scarce believe,</div> <div class='verse'>Yet my words shall not deceive.</div> <div class='verse'>I saw what seem'd a little Boy,</div> <div class='verse'>With a face of life and joy;</div> <div class='verse'>He danced, he ran, he nodded, he smiled,</div> <div class='verse'>Just like any other Child;</div> <div class='verse'>But could not speak, (how strange was this!)</div> <div class='verse'>Or cry, or breathe, nor could I kiss,</div> <div class='verse'>To save my life, the cherry red</div> <div class='verse'>Of lips, not living and not dead!</div> <div class='verse'>He was no picture, statue, doll;</div> <div class='verse'>He was not a Child at all;</div> <div class='verse'>He was Nothing, as near as could be,</div> <div class='verse'>He was as real as you or me.</div> <div class='verse'>&mdash;There he is: turn and see!</div> 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