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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of Told in the twilight, by F. E.
-Weatherly
-
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-most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
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-using this eBook.
-
-Title: Told in the twilight
-
-Author: F. E. Weatherly
-
-Illustrators: M. Ellen Edwards
- John C. Staples
-
-Release Date: February 3, 2023 [eBook #69938]
-
-Language: English
-
-Produced by: Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading
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-
-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT ***
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration: Told in the Twilight]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
- TOLD
- IN THE
- TWILIGHT
-
- by F. E. Weatherly
-
- Illustrated by
-
- M. ELLEN EDWARDS
- &
- JOHN C. STAPLES
-
- NEW YORK
- E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
- 39, WEST TWENTY THIRD STREET.
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _TWILIGHT LAND._]
-
- The day is done, the day is done,
- And all the troubles of the day!
- The long last crimson of the sun
- Is melting into silver gray.
- The old world slowly fades from view,
- Within another world we stand,
- And all is strange and all is new,
- For this, for this is Twilight-land.
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _THE TWILIGHT HOUR._]
-
- Children, who read these little rhymes,
- Out of the Twilight-land sent clear,
- There’s many a one in these hurrying times,
- Has not the time, like you, to hear.
-
- But, children, this is your hour indeed;
- And this is its beauty, this its power,
- That all you love and that all you need
- Comes to your hearts in the twilight hour.
-
- This is the hour when dreams come true,
- And life has never a tear or care,
- When those you have lost come back to you,
- And all your castles are strong and fair.
-
- Then, children, who read, and I who write,—
- Shall we not pray with all our power,
- That whatever we lose of the world’s delight,
- We lose not the peace of the twilight hour?
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _CONTENTS._]
-
- _TITLE PAGE_, 1.
-
- _THE OLD PICTURE BOOK_, 48.
-
- _BELL’S DREAM_, 10, 11, 14, 15.
-
- _BELL’S DREAM_, 10, 11, 14, 15.
-
- _LONDON RIVER_, 17.
-
- _THE ABBEY SWALLOWS_, 19.
-
- _THE MISGUIDED LAMB_, 21, 23.
-
- _THE MISGUIDED LAMB_, 21, 23.
-
- _THE POET AND THE PRINTER_, 32, 33.
-
- _THE POET AND THE PRINTER_, 32, 33.
-
- _MINNIE’S CALCULATIONS_, 27.
-
- _DREAMS_, 28.
-
- _SORROWS_, 31.
-
- _HARRY’S SOLILOQUY_, 35.
-
-[Illustration]
-
- _THE DEAD RABBIT_, 37.
-
- _THE UNAPPRECIATIVE KITTEN_, 39.
-
- _THE DONKEY AND THE CHILD (picture)_, 40.
-
- _SUMMER TIME (picture)_, 41.
-
- _THE CAT’S SOLILOQUY_, 42.
-
- _TOBY’S LESSON_, 44.
-
- _SELINA’S DESTINY_, 46.
-
- _THE LOBSTER AND THE MAID_, 49, 50, 51.
-
- _NO THANK YOU, TOM_, 53.
-
- _A BUNCH OF FLOWERS_, 55.
-
- _THE CHILDREN’S SONG_, 58.
-
- _CHRISTMAS (picture)_, 57.
-
- _THE CHILDREN’S SONG_, 59.
-
- _A BOUGH OF HOLLY_, 61.
-
- _THE END_, 63.
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _BELL’S DREAM._]
-
- It was the little Isabel,
- Upon the sand she lay,
- The summer sun struck hotly down,
- And she was tired of play,
- And down she sank into the sea,
- Though how, she could not say.—
-
- She stood within a dreadful court,
- Beneath the rolling tide,
- There sate a sturgeon as a judge,
- Two lobsters at her side;
- She had a sort of vague idea
- That she was being tried.
-
- And then the jurymen came in,
- And, as the clock struck ten,
- Rose Sergeant Shark and hitched his gown,
- And trifled with a pen,
- “Ahem—may’t please your Lordship,
- And gentle jurymen!
-
- “The counts against the prisoner
- Before you, are that she
- Has eaten salmon once at least,
- And soles most constantly,
- Likewise devoured one hundred shrimps
- At Margate with her tea.”
-
-[Illustration]
-
- “Call witnesses!”—An oyster rose,
- He spoke in plaintive tone,
- “Last week her mother bought a fish,”
- (He scarce could check a moan,)—
- “He was a dear dear friend of mine,
- His weight was half a stone!”
-
- “No oysters, ma’am?” the fishman said,
- “No, not to-day!” said she;
- “My child is fond of salmon, but
- Oysters do not agree!”
- The fishman wiped a salt salt tear,
- And murmured “Certainly!”
-
- “Ahem—but,” interposed the judge,
- “How do you know,” said he,
- “That she did really eat the fish?”
- “My Lud, it so must be,
- Because the oysters, I submit,
- With her did not agree!”
-
- “Besides, besides,” the oyster cried
- Half in an injured way,
- “The oysters in that fishman’s shop
- My relatives were they:
- They heard it all, they wrote to me,
- The letter came to-day!”
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration]
-
- “’Tis only hearsay evidence,”
- The judge remarked, and smiled,
- “But it will do in such a case,
- With such a murd’rous child.—
- Call the next witness!” for he saw
- The jury getting wild.
-
- And then uprose a little shrimp:
- “I am the last,” said he,
- “Of what was once, as you all know,
- A happy familee!
- Without a care we leapt and danced
- All in the merry sea!”
-
- “Alack! the cruel fisherman,
- He caught them all but me;
- The pris’ner clapped her hands and yelled—
- I heard her—‘Shrimps for tea!’
- And then went home and ate them all
- As fast as fast could be.”
-
- The foreman of the jury rose,
- (All hope for Bel has fled,)
- “There is no further need, my Lord,
- Of witnesses,” he said;
- “The verdict of us one and all
- Is _Guilty_ on each head!”
-
-[Illustration]
-
- “_Guilty_,” his Lordship said, and sighed,
- “A verdict sad but true:
- To pass the sentence of the court
- Is all I have to do;
- It is, that as you’ve fed on us,
- Why, we must feed on you!”
-
- She tried to speak; she could not speak;
- She tried to run, but no!
- The lobsters seized and hurried her
- Off to the cells below,
- And each pulled out a carving knife,
- And waved it to and fro.
-
- * * * *
-
- But hark! there comes a voice she knows,
- And some one takes her hand;
- She finds herself at home again
- Upon the yellow sand;
- But how she got there safe and sound,
- She cannot understand.
-
- And many a morning afterwards,
- Whene’er she sees the tide,
- She still retains that vague idea
- That she is being tried,
- And seems to see the sturgeon judge
- And the lobsters at her side.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _LONDON RIVER._]
-
- All day long in the scorching weather,
- All day long in the winter gloom,
- Brother and sister stand together,
- She with her flowers and he with his broom.
-
- And the folks go on over London river,
- Poor and wealthy, busy and wise,
- Will nobody see those white lips quiver?
- Will nobody stop for those pleading eyes?
-
- The old bridge echoes the ceaseless thunder
- Of crowds that gather and stream along,
- And the stranger child shrinks back in wonder,
- She cannot sing in that hurrying throng.
-
- She thinks of her home across the ocean,
- With its deep blue sky and its vineyards green;
- But who will heed, in that wild commotion,
- The pitiful sound of her tambourine?
-
- Flow! flow! O London river,
- Carry thy ships from the mighty town,
- Smiles and tears in thy heart for ever,
- Smiles and tears as thou hurriest down!
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _THE ABBEY SWALLOWS._]
-
- The year was late, the days were cold,
- The swallows long had gone,
- Two only by the Abbey door
- Still doubting lingered on.
- They hovered, wheeling round and round,
- Beside the porch in fear,
- And as they lighted on the ground
- A little child drew near.
-
- Close to her feet the swallows came,
- And twittered gay and glad,
- She broke her little crust for them—
- It was the last she had.
- Then blithe and gay they flew away,
- She to her corner crept;
- There was no one now in the world to care
- Whether she smiled or wept.
-
- With summer back the swallows came,
- Flew to the Abbey door,
- But no one stood to watch for them,
- The child was there no more.
- She had gone away on the angels’ wings,
- No more in the world to roam,
- For the love that she gave those helpless things,
- She has found in her Heavenly Home.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _THE MISGUIDED LAMB._]
-
- There were two little girls who had
- A fond devoted Mammy,
- But spent their warm affections on
- A most ungrateful lamb-y,
-
- For spite of all the care of Ruth,
- And all the love of Mary,
- This lamb was a misguided youth,
- Most crooked and contràry.
-
- On Sunday, when they went to church,
- And wished to be without him,
- He used to wander up the aisle,
- And stop and stare about him.
-
- And when the parson and the clerk
- Looked stern at Ruth and Mary,
- They wished they did not own a lamb
- So crooked and contràry.
-
- He used to bleat most piteously
- When they came up the mountain,
- As if to say “I am so dry,
- I’d like to drink the fountain!”
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration]
-
- But when they drew a pail for him,
- (You really scarce might think it,)
- He wagged his tail and winked his eye,
- And simply wouldn’t drink it.
-
- It chanced one day they went to pay
- Their morning salutation,
- But though they called, he never came,
- Much to their consternation.
-
- They sought him high, they sought him low,
- But no! they could not find him,
- They said “He will, he must come back,
- And bring his tail behind him.”
-
- They sought him up the windy cliff,
- And down the ferny hollow,
- And still they said “He can’t be lost!”
- And still their feet did follow.
-
- Alas! they found him dead at last—
- Alas! for Ruth and Mary:
- But then, you see, he always was
- So crooked and contràry.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _MINNIE’S CALCULATIONS._]
-
- Said Minnie with pride,
- As she counted her chicks,
- “When they’re grown a bit bigger,
- I’ll sell all the six.
- And as each ought to fetch
- At the least half a crown,
- I can quite well afford me
- A new Sunday gown.”
-
- Alas for our castles!
- How soon they all slip!
- The cat ate one chicken,
- And one got the pip;
- And while mourning their brother
- And sister, the four
- Were crushed by the carter-boy
- Slamming the door.
-
- _Don’t reckon your chickens_
- _Before they are hatched_,
- Is a proverb some fancy
- Can never be matched.
- But I think that this other
- Deserves to be told:—
- _Don’t count on their value_
- _Until they are sold._
-
-[Illustration]
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-
-[Illustration: _DREAMS._]
-
- Sometimes, beneath the brightest skies,
- The children pause amid their play,
- With parted lips and earnest eyes
- In silence looking far away.
- We may not know, we cannot see
- The wonder-world whereon they gaze;
- Heaven grant, whate’er their dreams may be,
- They find them true in after days!
- Dreaming sit the children,
- Pausing in their play,
- Dreaming of what is, ah! so sweet,
- Because, because so far away.
-
- And we too have our dreams, our own,
- Amid the rush and toil of life,
- Our dreams of days and things long flown,
- That come like peace comes, after strife.
- Old hands we feel, old eyes we see,
- Within our ears old voices ring;
- They are but dreams, maybe, maybe,
- But oh! the blessing that they bring.
- Dreaming like the children,
- We dream from day to day,
- Dreaming of what is, ah! so sweet,
- Because, because so far away.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _SORROWS._]
-
- There are sorrows, little children,
- That you cannot understand,
- As you watch our tears in wonder,
- As you take us by the hand.
- There are sorrows, little children,
- You cannot bear them yet,
- But you nestle close beside us,
- And you help us to forget.
- You comfort us, my darlings,
- And yet you know not how;
- You show us Heaven is near us,
- Though our tears may blind us now.
-
- There are little ones in Heaven,
- Gone a little while before,
- And they stand, to watch us coming,
- Beside the golden door.
- There are little ones in Heaven,
- They are calling you and me,
- When our hearts have grown forgetful,
- And our feet would wayward be.
- We can hear them, if we listen,
- We may meet them all one day,
- When our tears shall fall no longer,
- And the shadows flee away!
-
-[Illustration]
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-
-
-[Illustration: _THE POET AND THE PRINTER._]
-
- Two little girls—I met them once,
- But quite forget their name,
- You’ll find them on page twenty-four,
- The printer is to blame,
- The picture ought to face the words,
- But there! it’s all the same.
-
- Two little girls, as I remarked,
- They left their snug abode,
- Because they thought their dinner must
- Taste better on the road,
- For forks and spoons and tablecloths,
- They really incommode.
-
- The ditch is far, far pleasanter
- Than any high-backed chair,
- I’m sure you will agree with them
- If you’ll observe them there;
- And when they’d finished, off they trudged
- All thro’ the summer air.
-
- At last they reached a bridge (the bridge
- You’ll see on twenty-five),
- And on the bridge those little girls
- Are hanging all alive;
- It’s marvellous how hanging
- Will make some children thrive!
-
-[Illustration]
-
- They pondered which was best, to be
- Upon the bridge or under,
- And what they’d do suppose the bridge
- Were just to split asunder,
- But as they couldn’t settle that,
- They gave it up in wonder.
-
- Now, had these children dined at home,
- I think I may explain,
- We never should have seen them here
- At dinner in the lane:
- Unless when they had dined at home
- They’d dined out here again.
-
- And had the bridge been never built
- I think it must appear
- These children ne’er had found it, though
- They’d sought from year to year;
- So, how they could have hung on it,
- Is not exactly clear.
-
- And had I said, when I was asked,
- “I cannot sing in winter,
- I’ve run my throat against a door,
- And spiked it with a splinter;”—
- It would have put the artists out,
- And much annoyed the printer!
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _HARRY’S SOLILOQUY._]
-
- “There’s ne’er a kitty so sweet and so pretty,
- There’s ne’er such a kitty I’ve seen in my life;
- “I’m certain,” said Harry, “if ever I marry,
- I shall only want kitty, a house, and a wife.”
-
- “This dear old barrow is nice, though it’s narrow,
- It will do very well to take us about;
- For my income of course is too small to keep horses,
- But that doesn’t matter, we’ll manage without.”
-
- But alas! for the dreams of the barrow and kitten,
- His father’s old pointer came back from the wood;
- And the poor little pussy with terror was smitten,
- And scampered away as fast as she could.
-
- And the gardener returned from his evening ablution,
- And trundled the barrow straight off to the shed;
- And Mary arrived, and with stern resolution
- Just carried off Harry and put him to bed.
-
-[Illustration]
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-
-[Illustration: _THE DEAD RABBIT._]
-
- Weep on! he has a happier fate
- Than many such as he,
- To lie there in the gentle snow,
- And die so quietly:
- To feel your warm tears fall on him,
- To feel your tender hands.
- You _know_ he feels as well as you,
- You _know_ he understands.
-
- He might have now been dying
- Shot by a cruel gun;
- With panting heart and glazing eye
- For life he might have run.
- E’en now he might be hanging
- Above your larder shelves,
- And you, you might, indeed you might,
- Have eaten him yourselves.
-
- Weep on! you will not better it;
- Or change the world’s old way,
- For men will hunt and course and shoot,
- Though you should weep for aye.
- Weep on! be not ashamed of it,
- You’ll own in after years,
- That _you yourselves_, if not the world,
- Are better for your tears.
-
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-
-[Illustration: _THE UNAPPRECIATIVE KITTEN._]
-
- “Did e’er you see a flow’r like that,
- So exquisitely pretty?”
- Said Mabel to her Kitty-cat;
- But not a word said Kitty.
-
- Perhaps it was in her delight
- Mabel contrived to squeeze her,
- For though Kit stared with all her might,
- The sunflow’r did not please her.
-
- “Well, well, why don’t you answer me?
- Why don’t you say it’s pretty?”
- But still she could or would not see,—
- She was perverse, was Kitty.
-
- “Sweet mistress, pray restrain your ire,”
- Said Kit in trepidation;
- “Why must I say that I admire,
- When I’ve no admiration?”
-
- “Don’t ask me that, you stupid cat,”
- Said Mabel in a passion;
- “You must, you shall admire,—because,
- Because it is the fashion!”
-
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-
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-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _THE CAT’S SOLILOQUY._]
-
- An open cage, some feathers fair,
- Two little maidens crying,
- And Pussy seated on a chair,
- The mournful scene espying.
-
- Tear after tear rolls down each cheek,
- Sob after sob arises,
- While Puss, as well as she can speak,
- Calmly soliloquises!
-
- “If they would keep a bird in cage,
- They should not leave it undone;
- For that’s the tale in every jail
- From Panama to London.
-
- Their ducks and chicks they pet and feed,
- And yet I’ve often noted,
- They eat the very birds indeed
- To which they’re most devoted.
-
- Then wherefore look so cross and sour,
- Why make this sad commotion?
- Why should not I a bird devour
- For whom I’ve _no_ devotion!”
-
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-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _TOBY’S LESSON._]
-
- A was the Alphabet Toby must say,
- B was the Birch that made him obey,
- C was the Collar he wore to explain,
- D the Disgrace he had got in again,
- E was the Evening when Toby was gay,
- F was the Fate that befell him next day,
- G was the Grave look on Muriel’s face,
- H was the Hist’ry of Toby’s disgrace:—
- I was the Ink that he spilt on the floor,
- J was his Jump to get out of the door,
- K was the Kick that he got as he past,
- L was the Lesson—alas! not the last,
- M was the Milk that he stole from the cat,
- N was the Nap that he took after that,
- O was the Owl that gave him a fright,
- P was the Poaching he went for at night,
- Q was his Queer look all dirty and worn,
- R his Return somewhat early next morn,
- S was his Smile that would not avail,
- T was the Twitch of his terrified tail,
- U “Understand me” he tried to assert,
- V, his Vain effort his fate to avert,
- W, the Whip which he saw held on high,
- X, the Xpression that rose in his eye,
- Y was his Yap when at last the whip fell,
- Z (like his feelings) I’ll leave you to tell.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _SELINA’S DESTINY._]
-
- Selina Sophonisba Ann
- Had a soul above a frying-pan,
- And, when her mother to cook began,
- She took to her heels and away she ran.
-
- Selina Sophonisba, she
- Stood all day long ’neath the apple tree,
- Till she became most dreadfull_ee_
- What is commonly callèd hungar_ee_!
-
- Selina Sophonisba Ann
- About her dinner to think began,
- But the voice of a little Fairy-man
- Said, “Don’t go back to the frying-pan,
-
- “Stay here beneath the apple tree,
- And you will find your destin_ee_,
- A prince is coming of high degree,
- Who will make you queen of his fair countr_ee_.”
-
- The prince came not: and the moments ran,
- And her thoughts to supper to turn began,
- So Selina Sophonisba Ann
- Went gladly back to the frying-pan.
-
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-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _THE OLD PICTURE-BOOK._]
-
- It was an old old picture-book,
- Full of the merriest tales
- Of mermaids fair with golden hair,
- And ships with silver sails;
- Of fairies light who danced at night,
- Of goblins on the stair,
- And many a knight in armour bright
- Who fought for ladies fair.
- It was only a battered picture-book,
- But ’twas worth its weight in gold,
- For it spoke to the children’s tender hearts,
- And its tales were never old.
-
- It is an old old picture-book,
- Battered, and torn, and brown;
- But why does the mother sit and sigh?
- Why do her tears run down?
- She listens through the long long eves,
- She waits for the opening door,
- But the little hands that turned the leaves
- Will turn them again no more.
- It is only a battered picture-book,
- But she cannot lay it by,
- For hearts may change, but a mother’s love
- Is a love that cannot die!
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _THE LOBSTER AND THE MAID._]
-
- He was a gentle lobster,
- (The boats had just come in,)
- He did not love the fishermen,
- He could not stand their din;
- And so he quietly stole off,
- As if it were no sin.
-
- She was a little maiden,
- He met her on the sand,
- “And how d’you do?” the lobster said,
- “Why don’t you give your hand?”
- For why she edged away from him
- He _could_ not understand.
-
- “Excuse me, Sir,” the maiden said,
- “Excuse me, if you please,”
- And put her hands behind her back,
- And doubled up her knees,
- “I always thought that lobsters were
- A little apt to squeeze.”
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration]
-
- “Your ignorance,” the lobster said,
- “Is natural, I fear,
- Such scandal is a shame,” he sobbed,
- “It is not true, my dear!”
- And with his pocket-handkerchief
- He wiped away a tear.
-
- So out she put her little hand,
- As though she feared him not,
- When some one grabbed him suddenly
- And put him in a pot,
- With water which I think he found
- Uncomfortably hot.
-
- It may have been the water made
- The blood flow to his head,
- It may have been that dreadful fib
- Lay on his soul like lead:
- This much is true,—he went in gray,
- And came out very red.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _NO THANK YOU, TOM._]
-
-
- They met, when they were girl and boy,
- Going to school one day,
- And, “Won’t you take my peg-top, dear?”
- Was all that he could say.
- She bit her little pinafore,
- Close to his side she came,
- She whispered “No! no, thank you Tom,”
- But took it all the same.
-
- They met one day the selfsame way,
- When ten swift years had flown;
- He said, “I’ve nothing but my heart,
- But that is yours alone.”
- “And won’t you take my heart?” he said,
- And called her by her name;
- She blushed and said “No, thank you, Tom,”
- But took it all the same.
-
- And twenty, thirty, forty years
- Have brought them care and joy,
- She has the little peg-top still
- He gave her when a boy.
- “I’ve had no wealth, sweet wife,” says he,
- “I’ve never brought you fame:”
- She whispers “No! no, thank you, Tom!
- You’ve loved me all the same!”
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _A BUNCH OF FLOWERS._]
-
- It was only a bunch of flow’rets wild,
- Gathered by children one morning fair;
- And it went away in the twilight gray
- To the mighty city’s din and glare.
- And the great grand flow’rs in the market smiled
- At the little bunch of flow’rets wild;
- And the crowding passers had but a care
- For the many flow’rs that were rich and rare.
-
- A mother stopt in the market place,
- She saw the flow’rets shining there,
- And she thought of her child, with his wan, thin face,
- Pining all day in the London square.
- She left those lordly, blazing flow’rs,
- She thought of her far-off childhood hours;
- She took that bunch of flow’rets wild—
- Her dearest gift to her crippled child.
-
- And she spoke to him of the thousand ones
- Who toiled in the city hour by hour,
- Who never had seen the country suns,
- And never had plucked a country flow’r,
- And a new light shone in his mournful eyes,
- He hushed his sad, complaining cries;
- For that little bunch of flow’rets wild
- Had changed the life of the crippled child.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _THE CHILDREN’S SONG._]
-
- What is the song the children hear,
- O pealing bells, O Christmas bells,
- Echoing high and low,
- When skies are dark and winds are drear,
- What is the song the children hear
- Across the winter snow?
- _Christ is born_ (the joy-bells ring)
- _Christ is born to be your King,_
- _Christ has come from Heaven to bring_
- _Peace to earth below._
-
- What is the song the children sing,
- A carol sweet all hearts to greet,
- Good news for high and low?
- What is the news the children bring,
- What is the song the children sing
- As through the streets they go?
- _Christ is born_ (the children sing),
- _Christ is born to be our King,_
- _Christ has come from Heaven to bring_
- _Peace to earth below._
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _A BOUGH OF HOLLY._]
-
- He sat on Christmas morn alone,
- No friend to bid him cheer;
- He missed them not, though all were gone,
- Who loved him yester-year.
- And gaily rang the Christmas bells,
- Their wondrous tale of old;
- He heard no meaning in their sound,
- He sate and hugged his gold.
-
- He watched the happy folks go by,
- He scowled to see them glad,
- And then a little maid drew nigh,
- A holly bough she had.
- She lifts her pleading face to him,
- She begs in accents wild:
- What is it makes his eyes grow dim?
- Why does he call the child?—
-
- He seems to see his mother’s face,
- Who died long years ago,
- And the holly bough he knelt to place
- Upon her grave of snow.
- He listened to the Christmas bells,
- He felt their meaning then:
- Peace upon earth, and in his heart
- Peace and good-will to men!
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: _THE END._]
-
-
- The old milestone is reached at last,
- And night will be upon us soon;
- The western light is changing fast,
- And slowly climbs the crescent moon.
-
- The path that we have trod erewhile
- Stretches behind us, growing gray,
- And here we stand beside the stile
- That ends our journey for to-day.
-
- Our twilight talks have gone so fast,
- Like all things glad, it so must be;
- The old milestone is reached at last,
- That means good-bye for you and me.
-
- But we will have no mournful chimes,
- Sweet children, no, we shall not part;
- For while you listen to my rhymes,
- You cannot ever leave my heart!
-
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-<p class="titlepage">by F. E. Weatherly</p>
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-<span class="smcap">M. Ellen Edwards</span><br>
-&amp;<br>
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- <div class="verse indent2">Is melting into silver gray.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">The old world slowly fades from view,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Within another world we stand,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And all is strange and all is new,</div>
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- <div class="verse indent0">Children, who read these little rhymes,</div>
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- <div class="verse indent0">There’s many a one in these hurrying times,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Has not the time, like you, to hear.</div>
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- <div class="verse indent0">But, children, this is your hour indeed;</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And this is its beauty, this its power,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">That all you love and that all you need</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Comes to your hearts in the twilight hour.</div>
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- <div class="verse indent0">This is the hour when dreams come true,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And life has never a tear or care,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">When those you have lost come back to you,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And all your castles are strong and fair.</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Then, children, who read, and I who write,—</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Shall we not pray with all our power,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">That whatever we lose of the world’s delight,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">We lose not the peace of the twilight hour?</div>
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- <tr>
- <td><i>TITLE PAGE</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#TOLD_IN_THE_TWILIGHT">1.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>THE OLD PICTURE BOOK</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_OLD_PICTURE-BOOK">48.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>BELL’S DREAM</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#BELLS_DREAM">10, 11, 14, 15.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>BELL’S DREAM</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#BELLS_DREAM">10, 11, 14, 15.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>LONDON RIVER</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#LONDON_RIVER">17.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>THE ABBEY SWALLOWS</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_ABBEY_SWALLOWS">19.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>THE MISGUIDED LAMB</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_MISGUIDED_LAMB">21, 23.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>THE MISGUIDED LAMB</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_MISGUIDED_LAMB">21, 23.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>THE POET AND THE PRINTER</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_POET_AND_THE_PRINTER">32, 33.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>THE POET AND THE PRINTER</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_POET_AND_THE_PRINTER">32, 33.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>MINNIE’S CALCULATIONS</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#MINNIES_CALCULATIONS">27.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>DREAMS</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#DREAMS">28.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>SORROWS</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#SORROWS">31.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>HARRY’S SOLILOQUY</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#HARRYS_SOLILOQUY">35.</a></td>
- </tr>
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-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span></p>
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-<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page09" style="max-width: 43.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/page09.jpg" alt="">
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- <tr>
- <td><i>THE DEAD RABBIT</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_DEAD_RABBIT">37.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>THE UNAPPRECIATIVE KITTEN</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_UNAPPRECIATIVE_KITTEN">39.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>THE DONKEY AND THE CHILD (picture)</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#page40">40.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>SUMMER TIME (picture)</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#page41">41.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>THE CAT’S SOLILOQUY</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_CATS_SOLILOQUY">42.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>TOBY’S LESSON</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#TOBYS_LESSON">44.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>SELINA’S DESTINY</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#SELINAS_DESTINY">46.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>THE LOBSTER AND THE MAID</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_LOBSTER_AND_THE_MAID">49, 50, 51.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>NO THANK YOU, TOM</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#NO_THANK_YOU_TOM">53.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>A BUNCH OF FLOWERS</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#A_BUNCH_OF_FLOWERS">55.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>THE CHILDREN’S SONG</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_CHILDRENS_SONG">58.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>CHRISTMAS (picture)</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#page57">57.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>THE CHILDREN’S SONG</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_CHILDRENS_SONG">59.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>A BOUGH OF HOLLY</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#A_BOUGH_OF_HOLLY">61.</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><i>THE END</i>,</td>
- <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_END">63.</a></td>
- </tr>
-</table>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">It was the little Isabel,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Upon the sand she lay,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">The summer sun struck hotly down,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And she was tired of play,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And down she sank into the sea,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Though how, she could not say.—</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">She stood within a dreadful court,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Beneath the rolling tide,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">There sate a sturgeon as a judge,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Two lobsters at her side;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She had a sort of vague idea</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">That she was being tried.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">And then the jurymen came in,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And, as the clock struck ten,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Rose Sergeant Shark and hitched his gown,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And trifled with a pen,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“Ahem—may’t please your Lordship,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And gentle jurymen!</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“The counts against the prisoner</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Before you, are that she</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Has eaten salmon once at least,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And soles most constantly,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Likewise devoured one hundred shrimps</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">At Margate with her tea.”</div>
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- <div class="verse indent0">“Call witnesses!”—An oyster rose,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">He spoke in plaintive tone,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“Last week her mother bought a fish,”</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">(He scarce could check a moan,)—</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“He was a dear dear friend of mine,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">His weight was half a stone!”</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“No oysters, ma’am?” the fishman said,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">“No, not to-day!” said she;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“My child is fond of salmon, but</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Oysters do not agree!”</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">The fishman wiped a salt salt tear,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And murmured “Certainly!”</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“Ahem—but,” interposed the judge,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">“How do you know,” said he,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“That she did really eat the fish?”</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">“My Lud, it so must be,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Because the oysters, I submit,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">With her did not agree!”</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“Besides, besides,” the oyster cried</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Half in an injured way,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“The oysters in that fishman’s shop</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">My relatives were they:</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">They heard it all, they wrote to me,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">The letter came to-day!”</div>
- </div>
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- <div class="verse indent0">“’Tis only hearsay evidence,”</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">The judge remarked, and smiled,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“But it will do in such a case,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">With such a murd’rous child.—</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Call the next witness!” for he saw</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">The jury getting wild.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">And then uprose a little shrimp:</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">“I am the last,” said he,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“Of what was once, as you all know,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">A happy familee!</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Without a care we leapt and danced</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">All in the merry sea!”</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“Alack! the cruel fisherman,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">He caught them all but me;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">The pris’ner clapped her hands and yelled—</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">I heard her—‘Shrimps for tea!’</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And then went home and ate them all</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">As fast as fast could be.”</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">The foreman of the jury rose,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">(All hope for Bel has fled,)</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“There is no further need, my Lord,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Of witnesses,” he said;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“The verdict of us one and all</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Is <i>Guilty</i> on each head!”</div>
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- <div class="verse indent0">“<i>Guilty</i>,” his Lordship said, and sighed,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">“A verdict sad but true:</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">To pass the sentence of the court</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Is all I have to do;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">It is, that as you’ve fed on us,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Why, we must feed on you!”</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">She tried to speak; she could not speak;</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">She tried to run, but no!</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">The lobsters seized and hurried her</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Off to the cells below,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And each pulled out a carving knife,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And waved it to and fro.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse center">* * * *</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">But hark! there comes a voice she knows,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And some one takes her hand;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She finds herself at home again</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Upon the yellow sand;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">But how she got there safe and sound,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">She cannot understand.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">And many a morning afterwards,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Whene’er she sees the tide,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She still retains that vague idea</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">That she is being tried,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And seems to see the sturgeon judge</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And the lobsters at her side.</div>
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- <div class="verse indent0">All day long in the scorching weather,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">All day long in the winter gloom,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Brother and sister stand together,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">She with her flowers and he with his broom.</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">And the folks go on over London river,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Poor and wealthy, busy and wise,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Will nobody see those white lips quiver?</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Will nobody stop for those pleading eyes?</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">The old bridge echoes the ceaseless thunder</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Of crowds that gather and stream along,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And the stranger child shrinks back in wonder,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">She cannot sing in that hurrying throng.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">She thinks of her home across the ocean,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">With its deep blue sky and its vineyards green;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">But who will heed, in that wild commotion,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">The pitiful sound of her tambourine?</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Flow! flow! O London river,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Carry thy ships from the mighty town,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Smiles and tears in thy heart for ever,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Smiles and tears as thou hurriest down!</div>
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- <div class="verse indent0">The year was late, the days were cold,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">The swallows long had gone,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Two only by the Abbey door</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Still doubting lingered on.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">They hovered, wheeling round and round,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Beside the porch in fear,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And as they lighted on the ground</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">A little child drew near.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Close to her feet the swallows came,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And twittered gay and glad,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She broke her little crust for them—</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">It was the last she had.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Then blithe and gay they flew away,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">She to her corner crept;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">There was no one now in the world to care</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Whether she smiled or wept.</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">With summer back the swallows came,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Flew to the Abbey door,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">But no one stood to watch for them,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">The child was there no more.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She had gone away on the angels’ wings,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">No more in the world to roam,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">For the love that she gave those helpless things,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">She has found in her Heavenly Home.</div>
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- <div class="verse indent0">There were two little girls who had</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">A fond devoted Mammy,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">But spent their warm affections on</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">A most ungrateful lamb-y,</div>
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- <div class="verse indent0">For spite of all the care of Ruth,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And all the love of Mary,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">This lamb was a misguided youth,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Most crooked and contràry.</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">On Sunday, when they went to church,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And wished to be without him,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">He used to wander up the aisle,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And stop and stare about him.</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">And when the parson and the clerk</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Looked stern at Ruth and Mary,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">They wished they did not own a lamb</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">So crooked and contràry.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">He used to bleat most piteously</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">When they came up the mountain,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">As if to say “I am so dry,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">I’d like to drink the fountain!”</div>
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- <div class="verse indent0">But when they drew a pail for him,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">(You really scarce might think it,)</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">He wagged his tail and winked his eye,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And simply wouldn’t drink it.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">It chanced one day they went to pay</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Their morning salutation,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">But though they called, he never came,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Much to their consternation.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">They sought him high, they sought him low,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">But no! they could not find him,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">They said “He will, he must come back,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And bring his tail behind him.”</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">They sought him up the windy cliff,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And down the ferny hollow,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And still they said “He can’t be lost!”</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And still their feet did follow.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Alas! they found him dead at last—</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Alas! for Ruth and Mary:</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">But then, you see, he always was</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">So crooked and contràry.</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Said Minnie with pride,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">As she counted her chicks,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“When they’re grown a bit bigger,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">I’ll sell all the six.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And as each ought to fetch</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">At the least half a crown,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">I can quite well afford me</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">A new Sunday gown.”</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Alas for our castles!</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">How soon they all slip!</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">The cat ate one chicken,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And one got the pip;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And while mourning their brother</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And sister, the four</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Were crushed by the carter-boy</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Slamming the door.</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0"><i>Don’t reckon your chickens</i></div>
- <div class="verse indent2"><i>Before they are hatched</i>,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Is a proverb some fancy</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Can never be matched.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">But I think that this other</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Deserves to be told:—</div>
- <div class="verse indent0"><i>Don’t count on their value</i></div>
- <div class="verse indent2"><i>Until they are sold.</i></div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Sometimes, beneath the brightest skies,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">The children pause amid their play,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">With parted lips and earnest eyes</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">In silence looking far away.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">We may not know, we cannot see</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">The wonder-world whereon they gaze;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Heaven grant, whate’er their dreams may be,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">They find them true in after days!</div>
- <div class="verse indent4">Dreaming sit the children,</div>
- <div class="verse indent6">Pausing in their play,</div>
- <div class="verse indent4">Dreaming of what is, ah! so sweet,</div>
- <div class="verse indent6">Because, because so far away.</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">And we too have our dreams, our own,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Amid the rush and toil of life,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Our dreams of days and things long flown,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">That come like peace comes, after strife.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Old hands we feel, old eyes we see,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Within our ears old voices ring;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">They are but dreams, maybe, maybe,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">But oh! the blessing that they bring.</div>
- <div class="verse indent4">Dreaming like the children,</div>
- <div class="verse indent6">We dream from day to day,</div>
- <div class="verse indent4">Dreaming of what is, ah! so sweet,</div>
- <div class="verse indent6">Because, because so far away.</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">There are sorrows, little children,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">That you cannot understand,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">As you watch our tears in wonder,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">As you take us by the hand.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">There are sorrows, little children,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">You cannot bear them yet,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">But you nestle close beside us,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And you help us to forget.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">You comfort us, my darlings,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And yet you know not how;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">You show us Heaven is near us,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Though our tears may blind us now.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">There are little ones in Heaven,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Gone a little while before,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And they stand, to watch us coming,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Beside the golden door.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">There are little ones in Heaven,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">They are calling you and me,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">When our hearts have grown forgetful,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And our feet would wayward be.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">We can hear them, if we listen,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">We may meet them all one day,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">When our tears shall fall no longer,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And the shadows flee away!</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Two little girls—I met them once,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">But quite forget their name,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">You’ll find them on page twenty-four,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">The printer is to blame,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">The picture ought to face the words,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">But there! it’s all the same.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Two little girls, as I remarked,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">They left their snug abode,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Because they thought their dinner must</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Taste better on the road,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">For forks and spoons and tablecloths,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">They really incommode.</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">The ditch is far, far pleasanter</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Than any high-backed chair,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">I’m sure you will agree with them</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">If you’ll observe them there;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And when they’d finished, off they trudged</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">All thro’ the summer air.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">At last they reached a bridge (the bridge</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">You’ll see on twenty-five),</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And on the bridge those little girls</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Are hanging all alive;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">It’s marvellous how hanging</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Will make some children thrive!</div>
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- <div class="verse indent0">They pondered which was best, to be</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Upon the bridge or under,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And what they’d do suppose the bridge</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Were just to split asunder,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">But as they couldn’t settle that,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">They gave it up in wonder.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Now, had these children dined at home,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">I think I may explain,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">We never should have seen them here</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">At dinner in the lane:</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Unless when they had dined at home</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">They’d dined out here again.</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">And had the bridge been never built</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">I think it must appear</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">These children ne’er had found it, though</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">They’d sought from year to year;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">So, how they could have hung on it,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Is not exactly clear.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">And had I said, when I was asked,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">“I cannot sing in winter,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">I’ve run my throat against a door,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And spiked it with a splinter;”—</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">It would have put the artists out,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And much annoyed the printer!</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“There’s ne’er a kitty so sweet and so pretty,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">There’s ne’er such a kitty I’ve seen in my life;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“I’m certain,” said Harry, “if ever I marry,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">I shall only want kitty, a house, and a wife.”</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“This dear old barrow is nice, though it’s narrow,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">It will do very well to take us about;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">For my income of course is too small to keep horses,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">But that doesn’t matter, we’ll manage without.”</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">But alas! for the dreams of the barrow and kitten,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">His father’s old pointer came back from the wood;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And the poor little pussy with terror was smitten,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And scampered away as fast as she could.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">And the gardener returned from his evening ablution,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And trundled the barrow straight off to the shed;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And Mary arrived, and with stern resolution</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Just carried off Harry and put him to bed.</div>
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span></p>
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-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_DEAD_RABBIT"><i>THE DEAD RABBIT.</i></h2>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Weep on! he has a happier fate</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Than many such as he,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">To lie there in the gentle snow,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And die so quietly:</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">To feel your warm tears fall on him,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">To feel your tender hands.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">You <i>know</i> he feels as well as you,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">You <i>know</i> he understands.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">He might have now been dying</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Shot by a cruel gun;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">With panting heart and glazing eye</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">For life he might have run.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">E’en now he might be hanging</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Above your larder shelves,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And you, you might, indeed you might,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Have eaten him yourselves.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Weep on! you will not better it;</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Or change the world’s old way,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">For men will hunt and course and shoot,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Though you should weep for aye.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Weep on! be not ashamed of it,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">You’ll own in after years,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">That <i>you yourselves</i>, if not the world,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Are better for your tears.</div>
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span></p>
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-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_UNAPPRECIATIVE_KITTEN"><i>THE UNAPPRECIATIVE KITTEN.</i></h2>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“Did e’er you see a flow’r like that,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">So exquisitely pretty?”</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Said Mabel to her Kitty-cat;</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">But not a word said Kitty.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Perhaps it was in her delight</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Mabel contrived to squeeze her,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">For though Kit stared with all her might,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">The sunflow’r did not please her.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“Well, well, why don’t you answer me?</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Why don’t you say it’s pretty?”</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">But still she could or would not see,—</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">She was perverse, was Kitty.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“Sweet mistress, pray restrain your ire,”</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Said Kit in trepidation;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“Why must I say that I admire,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">When I’ve no admiration?”</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“Don’t ask me that, you stupid cat,”</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Said Mabel in a passion;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“You must, you shall admire,—because,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Because it is the fashion!”</div>
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span></p>
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-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_CATS_SOLILOQUY"><i>THE CAT’S SOLILOQUY.</i></h2>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">An open cage, some feathers fair,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Two little maidens crying,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And Pussy seated on a chair,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">The mournful scene espying.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Tear after tear rolls down each cheek,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Sob after sob arises,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">While Puss, as well as she can speak,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Calmly soliloquises!</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“If they would keep a bird in cage,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">They should not leave it undone;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">For that’s the tale in every jail</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">From Panama to London.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Their ducks and chicks they pet and feed,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And yet I’ve often noted,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">They eat the very birds indeed</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">To which they’re most devoted.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Then wherefore look so cross and sour,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Why make this sad commotion?</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Why should not I a bird devour</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">For whom I’ve <i>no</i> devotion!”</div>
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43"></a>[43]</span></p>
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44"></a>[44]</span></p>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">A was the Alphabet Toby must say,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">B was the Birch that made him obey,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">C was the Collar he wore to explain,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">D the Disgrace he had got in again,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">E was the Evening when Toby was gay,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">F was the Fate that befell him next day,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">G was the Grave look on Muriel’s face,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">H was the Hist’ry of Toby’s disgrace:—</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">I was the Ink that he spilt on the floor,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">J was his Jump to get out of the door,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">K was the Kick that he got as he past,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">L was the Lesson—alas! not the last,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">M was the Milk that he stole from the cat,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">N was the Nap that he took after that,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">O was the Owl that gave him a fright,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">P was the Poaching he went for at night,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Q was his Queer look all dirty and worn,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">R his Return somewhat early next morn,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">S was his Smile that would not avail,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">T was the Twitch of his terrified tail,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">U “Understand me” he tried to assert,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">V, his Vain effort his fate to avert,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">W, the Whip which he saw held on high,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">X, the Xpression that rose in his eye,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Y was his Yap when at last the whip fell,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Z (like his feelings) I’ll leave you to tell.</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Selina Sophonisba Ann</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Had a soul above a frying-pan,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And, when her mother to cook began,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She took to her heels and away she ran.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Selina Sophonisba, she</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Stood all day long ’neath the apple tree,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Till she became most dreadfull<i>ee</i></div>
- <div class="verse indent0">What is commonly callèd hungar<i>ee</i>!</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Selina Sophonisba Ann</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">About her dinner to think began,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">But the voice of a little Fairy-man</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Said, “Don’t go back to the frying-pan,</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“Stay here beneath the apple tree,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And you will find your destin<i>ee</i>,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">A prince is coming of high degree,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Who will make you queen of his fair countr<i>ee</i>.”</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">The prince came not: and the moments ran,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And her thoughts to supper to turn began,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">So Selina Sophonisba Ann</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Went gladly back to the frying-pan.</div>
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-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_OLD_PICTURE-BOOK"><i>THE OLD PICTURE-BOOK.</i></h2>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">It was an old old picture-book,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Full of the merriest tales</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Of mermaids fair with golden hair,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And ships with silver sails;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Of fairies light who danced at night,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Of goblins on the stair,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And many a knight in armour bright</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Who fought for ladies fair.</div>
- <div class="verse indent4">It was only a battered picture-book,</div>
- <div class="verse indent6">But ’twas worth its weight in gold,</div>
- <div class="verse indent4">For it spoke to the children’s tender hearts,</div>
- <div class="verse indent6">And its tales were never old.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">It is an old old picture-book,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Battered, and torn, and brown;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">But why does the mother sit and sigh?</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Why do her tears run down?</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She listens through the long long eves,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">She waits for the opening door,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">But the little hands that turned the leaves</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Will turn them again no more.</div>
- <div class="verse indent4">It is only a battered picture-book,</div>
- <div class="verse indent6">But she cannot lay it by,</div>
- <div class="verse indent4">For hearts may change, but a mother’s love</div>
- <div class="verse indent6">Is a love that cannot die!</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">He was a gentle lobster,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">(The boats had just come in,)</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">He did not love the fishermen,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">He could not stand their din;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And so he quietly stole off,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">As if it were no sin.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">She was a little maiden,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">He met her on the sand,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“And how d’you do?” the lobster said,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">“Why don’t you give your hand?”</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">For why she edged away from him</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">He <i>could</i> not understand.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“Excuse me, Sir,” the maiden said,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">“Excuse me, if you please,”</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And put her hands behind her back,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And doubled up her knees,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“I always thought that lobsters were</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">A little apt to squeeze.”</div>
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- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">“Your ignorance,” the lobster said,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">“Is natural, I fear,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Such scandal is a shame,” he sobbed,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">“It is not true, my dear!”</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And with his pocket-handkerchief</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">He wiped away a tear.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">So out she put her little hand,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">As though she feared him not,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">When some one grabbed him suddenly</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And put him in a pot,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">With water which I think he found</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Uncomfortably hot.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">It may have been the water made</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">The blood flow to his head,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">It may have been that dreadful fib</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Lay on his soul like lead:</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">This much is true,—he went in gray,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And came out very red.</div>
- </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52"></a>[52]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page52" style="max-width: 43.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/page52.jpg" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53"></a>[53]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page53" style="max-width: 43.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/page53.jpg" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="NO_THANK_YOU_TOM"><i>NO THANK YOU, TOM.</i></h2>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">They met, when they were girl and boy,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Going to school one day,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And, “Won’t you take my peg-top, dear?”</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Was all that he could say.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She bit her little pinafore,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Close to his side she came,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She whispered “No! no, thank you Tom,”</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">But took it all the same.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">They met one day the selfsame way,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">When ten swift years had flown;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">He said, “I’ve nothing but my heart,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">But that is yours alone.”</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“And won’t you take my heart?” he said,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And called her by her name;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She blushed and said “No, thank you, Tom,”</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">But took it all the same.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">And twenty, thirty, forty years</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Have brought them care and joy,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She has the little peg-top still</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">He gave her when a boy.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">“I’ve had no wealth, sweet wife,” says he,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">“I’ve never brought you fame:”</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She whispers “No! no, thank you, Tom!</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">You’ve loved me all the same!”</div>
- </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54"></a>[54]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page54" style="max-width: 43.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/page54.jpg" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55"></a>[55]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page55" style="max-width: 43.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/page55.jpg" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_BUNCH_OF_FLOWERS"><i>A BUNCH OF FLOWERS.</i></h2>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">It was only a bunch of flow’rets wild,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Gathered by children one morning fair;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And it went away in the twilight gray</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">To the mighty city’s din and glare.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And the great grand flow’rs in the market smiled</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">At the little bunch of flow’rets wild;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And the crowding passers had but a care</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">For the many flow’rs that were rich and rare.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">A mother stopt in the market place,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">She saw the flow’rets shining there,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And she thought of her child, with his wan, thin face,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Pining all day in the London square.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She left those lordly, blazing flow’rs,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She thought of her far-off childhood hours;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She took that bunch of flow’rets wild—</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Her dearest gift to her crippled child.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">And she spoke to him of the thousand ones</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Who toiled in the city hour by hour,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Who never had seen the country suns,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And never had plucked a country flow’r,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And a new light shone in his mournful eyes,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">He hushed his sad, complaining cries;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">For that little bunch of flow’rets wild</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Had changed the life of the crippled child.</div>
- </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a>[56]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page56" style="max-width: 43.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/page56.jpg" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57"></a>[57]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page57" style="max-width: 43.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/page57.jpg" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58"></a>[58]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page58" style="max-width: 43.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/page58.jpg" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_CHILDRENS_SONG"><i>THE CHILDREN’S SONG.</i></h2>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">What is the song the children hear,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">O pealing bells, O Christmas bells,</div>
- <div class="verse indent8">Echoing high and low,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">When skies are dark and winds are drear,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">What is the song the children hear</div>
- <div class="verse indent8">Across the winter snow?</div>
- <div class="verse indent10"><i>Christ is born</i> (the joy-bells ring)</div>
- <div class="verse indent10"><i>Christ is born to be your King,</i></div>
- <div class="verse indent10"><i>Christ has come from Heaven to bring</i></div>
- <div class="verse indent14"><i>Peace to earth below.</i></div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">What is the song the children sing,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">A carol sweet all hearts to greet,</div>
- <div class="verse indent8">Good news for high and low?</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">What is the news the children bring,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">What is the song the children sing</div>
- <div class="verse indent8">As through the streets they go?</div>
- <div class="verse indent10"><i>Christ is born</i> (the children sing),</div>
- <div class="verse indent10"><i>Christ is born to be our King,</i></div>
- <div class="verse indent10"><i>Christ has come from Heaven to bring</i></div>
- <div class="verse indent14"><i>Peace to earth below.</i></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59"></a>[59]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page59" style="max-width: 43.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/page59.jpg" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60"></a>[60]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page60" style="max-width: 43.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/page60.jpg" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_BOUGH_OF_HOLLY"><i>A BOUGH OF HOLLY.</i></h2>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">He sat on Christmas morn alone,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">No friend to bid him cheer;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">He missed them not, though all were gone,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Who loved him yester-year.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And gaily rang the Christmas bells,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Their wondrous tale of old;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">He heard no meaning in their sound,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">He sate and hugged his gold.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">He watched the happy folks go by,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">He scowled to see them glad,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And then a little maid drew nigh,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">A holly bough she had.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">She lifts her pleading face to him,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">She begs in accents wild:</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">What is it makes his eyes grow dim?</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Why does he call the child?—</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">He seems to see his mother’s face,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Who died long years ago,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And the holly bough he knelt to place</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Upon her grave of snow.</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">He listened to the Christmas bells,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">He felt their meaning then:</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">Peace upon earth, and in his heart</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Peace and good-will to men!</div>
- </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61"></a>[61]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page61" style="max-width: 43.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/page61.jpg" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
-
-<div class="chapter">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62"></a>[62]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page62" style="max-width: 43.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/page62.jpg" alt="">
-</div>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_END"><i>THE END.</i></h2>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">The old milestone is reached at last,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And night will be upon us soon;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">The western light is changing fast,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">And slowly climbs the crescent moon.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">The path that we have trod erewhile</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Stretches behind us, growing gray,</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">And here we stand beside the stile</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">That ends our journey for to-day.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">Our twilight talks have gone so fast,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Like all things glad, it so must be;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">The old milestone is reached at last,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">That means good-bye for you and me.</div>
- </div>
- <div class="stanza">
- <div class="verse indent0">But we will have no mournful chimes,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">Sweet children, no, we shall not part;</div>
- <div class="verse indent0">For while you listen to my rhymes,</div>
- <div class="verse indent2">You cannot ever leave my heart!</div>
- </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_63"></a>[63]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="page63" style="max-width: 43.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/page63.jpg" alt="">
-</div>
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_64"></a>[64]</span></p>
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