When summer days are o'er,
And the snowfalls come,
Rabbits count the hours no more,
For the bells are dumb.
And the snowfalls come,
Rabbits count the hours no more,
For the bells are dumb.
Childrens - Child Verse
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? Child Verse : Poems Grave and Gay
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SECOND COPY,
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Boston, U. S. A.
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? *!
MV LITTLE FRIEND
l>enr^ Btnneen
WITH MY
LOVE AND BLESSING
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? NOTE
SOME of these verses have
appeared in other places:
one in St. Nicholas, one in
Harper's Young People; and
the Sunday School Times,
the Youth's Companion, and
the Independent have each
published others. To this
class belong, I think, all I re-
print from my Poems and
Lyrics. Most of the contents,
however, is new.
J. B. T.
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? Child Verse
CONTENTS
FACE
Hare-bells
3
At Cock-Crow
4
A Duet
5
The Bobolink
6
The Bluebird
7
The Woodpecker
8
Chimney Stacks
9
Butterfly
lO
The Honey Bee
II
The Bee and the Blossoms
12
The Tax-Gatherer
13
Jack-o'-Lantern
H
The Pleiads
15
Jack Frost's Apology
i6
A Cavalcade
17
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? Child Verse
/
PAGE
^ Silk
i8
Seed-Time
19
A Legacy
20
Amid the Roses
21
Light and Shadow
22
Sleep
23
The Fire-Fly
24
s/ The Dragon-Fly
25
Archery
26
A Spy
27
A Lament
28
Fern Song
29
The Brook
30
\f An Interview
31
\( Baby's Dimples
32
>j A Bunch of Roses
33
Foot-Soldiers
34
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? Child Versd
PAGE
( The Baby's Star
35
Slumber-Song
36
/An Idolater
37
The New- Year Babe
38
Bicycles ! Tricycles
40
High and Low
41
Doctor Tumble-Bug
42
Close Quarters
43
The Time-Brood
44
Pains-Taking
45
A Rub
46
Cats
47
An Insectarian
48
The Squirrel
49
Hospitality
50
Frog Making
51
The Tree-Frog Pedigree
5^
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? V
Child Verse
PAGE
An Explanation
53
The Parlour and the Fly
54
No Go
55
A Mouse, A Cat, and an Irish Bull
56
The Same with a Difference
57
An Inconvenience
58
The Tryst
59
Etiquette
60
A Sunstroke
61
A Shuffle
62
Washington's Ruse
63
Panic
64
The End of It
65
A Little Child's Prayers
66
The Child: At Bethlehem
67^
To His Mother
68
A Lily of the Field
69
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? Child Verse
The Lamb-Child
PAGK
70
V A Pair of Turtle-Doves
71
Hide-and-Seek
72
Out of Bounds
73
y The Child on Calvary
74
i The Child: At Nazareth
75
\( St. Theresa and the Child
77
^ Tradition
78
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? CHILD VERSE
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? CHILD VERSE
HARE-BELLS
13 ING ! The little Rabbits' eyes,
-*-^ In the morning clear,
Moisten to the melodies
They alone can hear.
Ring ! The little Rabbits' feet,
Shod with racing rhyme.
If the breezes they would beat.
Must be beating time.
Ring !
When summer days are o'er,
And the snowfalls come,
Rabbits count the hours no more,
For the bells are dumb.
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? Child Verse
AT COCK-CROW
/^~^ROW ! For the night has thrice denied
^^ The glory of the Sun,
And now, repentant, turns aside
To weep what he has done.
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? Child Verse
A DUET
A LITTLE yellow Bird above,
^^^^ A little yellow Flower below;
The little Bird can sing the love
That Bird and Blossom know ;
The Blossom has no song nor wing,
But breathes the love he cannot sing.
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? Child Verse
THE BOBOLINK
A/OUR notes are few,
-*? But sweet your song
As honey-dew;
And all day long,
Dear Bobolink, a-listening,
I never tire to hear you sing.
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? Child Verse
THE BLUEBIRD
T ^ THEN God had made a host of them,
^ ^ One little flower still lacked a stem
To hold its blossom blue ;
So into it He breathed a song,
And suddenly, with petals strong
As wings, away it flew.
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? Child Verse
THE WOODPECKER
nPHE wizard of the woods is he ;
"*- For in his daily round,
Where'er he finds a rotting tree,
He makes the timber sound.
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? Child Verse
CHIMNEY STACKS
TN winter's cold and summer's heat
? *- The hospitable chimneys greet
Their never-failing guests ;
For when the sparks are upward gone,
The swallows downward come anon,
To build their neighboring nests.
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? Child Verse
BUTTERFLY
T3UTTERFLY, Butterfly, sipping the
? ^^ sand,
Have you forgotten the flowers of the land?
Or are you so sated with honey and dew
That sand-filtered water tastes better to you ?
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? Child Verse
o
THE HONEY-BEE
BEE, good-by !
Your weapon's gone,
And you anon
Are doomed to die ;
But Death to you can bring
No second sting.
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? Child Verse
THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS
" "I "\ THY stand ye idle, blossoms bright,
' ' The livelong summer day ? "
" Alas ! we labour all the night
For what thou takest away. "
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? Child Verse
THE TAX-GATHERER
" A ND pray, who are you ? '
-^"^ Said the violet blue
To the Bee, with surprise
At his wonderful size,
In her eye-glass of dew.
" I, madam," quoth he,
" Am a publican Bee,
Collecting the tax
On honey and wax.
Have you nothing for me ? "
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? Child Verse
JACK-O'-LANTERN
JACK-O'-LANTERN, Jack-o'-Lantern,
Tell me where you hide by day ? "
" In the cradle where the vapours
Dream the sunlit hours away. "
" Jack-o'-Lantern, Jack-o'- Lantern,
Who rekindles you at night ? "
" Any firefly in the meadow
Lends a Jack-o'-Lantern light. "
H
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? Child Verse
THE PLEIADS
"1 II /"HO are ye with clustered light,
' ' Little Sisters seven ? "
" Crickets, chirping all the night
On the hearth of heaven. "
15
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? Child Verse
JACK FROST'S APOLOGY
nnO strip you of your foliage
-? ? My spirit sorely grieves ;
Nor will I in the work engage
Unless you grant your leaves.
i6
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? Child Verse
A CAVALCADE
nPH ISTLE-DOWN, Thistle<lown,
? *- whither away?
Will you not longer abide ? "
Nay, we have wedded the winds to-day,
And home with the rovers we ride. "
17
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? Child Verse
SILK
' " I "WAS the shroud of many a worm-like
-*- thing
That rose from its tangled skein ;
'Twas the garb of many a god-like king
Who went to the worms again.
i8
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? Child Verse
SEED-TIME
A X /"HEN Trumpet-flowers begin to blow
^ ^ The Thistle-downs take heed,
For then they know 'tis time to go
And plant the winged seed.
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? Child Verse
A LEGACY
T~^0 you remember, little cloud,
-? -^ This morning when you lay --
A mist along the river -- what
The waters had to say?
And how the many-coloured flowers
That on the margin grew,
All promised when the day was done
To leave their tints to you ?
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? Child Verse
AMID THE ROSES
'T^HERE was laughter 'mid the Roses,
-*- For it was their natal day ;
And the children in the garden were
As light of heart as they.
There were sighs amid the Roses,
For the night was coming on ;
And the children -- weary now of play --
Were ready to be gone.
There are tears amid the Roses,
For the children are asleep ;
And the silence of the garden makes
The lonely blossoms weep.
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? Child Verse
I
LIGHT AND SHADOW
LOVE you, little maid,"
Said the Sunbeam to the Shade,
As all day long she shrank away before him ;
But at twilight, ere he died,
She was weeping at his side ;
And he felt her tresses softly trailing o'er him.
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? Child Verse : Poems Grave and Gay
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? ^tilW
]T nall^ a! /nard & Compar w. f
1 Boston 1899 I 1-- sJ
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? :\'V O COPIES ln;fa:(jb;iv
Copyright, i8gg
Office f thO
By Small, Maynard &? Company
NOV2 01<<QP
(^Incorporated. )
Register of Copyrights
Entered at Stationers' Hall
48674
SECOND COPY,
The Rockwell and Churchill Press
Boston, U. S. A.
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? *!
MV LITTLE FRIEND
l>enr^ Btnneen
WITH MY
LOVE AND BLESSING
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? NOTE
SOME of these verses have
appeared in other places:
one in St. Nicholas, one in
Harper's Young People; and
the Sunday School Times,
the Youth's Companion, and
the Independent have each
published others. To this
class belong, I think, all I re-
print from my Poems and
Lyrics. Most of the contents,
however, is new.
J. B. T.
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? Child Verse
CONTENTS
FACE
Hare-bells
3
At Cock-Crow
4
A Duet
5
The Bobolink
6
The Bluebird
7
The Woodpecker
8
Chimney Stacks
9
Butterfly
lO
The Honey Bee
II
The Bee and the Blossoms
12
The Tax-Gatherer
13
Jack-o'-Lantern
H
The Pleiads
15
Jack Frost's Apology
i6
A Cavalcade
17
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? Child Verse
/
PAGE
^ Silk
i8
Seed-Time
19
A Legacy
20
Amid the Roses
21
Light and Shadow
22
Sleep
23
The Fire-Fly
24
s/ The Dragon-Fly
25
Archery
26
A Spy
27
A Lament
28
Fern Song
29
The Brook
30
\f An Interview
31
\( Baby's Dimples
32
>j A Bunch of Roses
33
Foot-Soldiers
34
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? Child Versd
PAGE
( The Baby's Star
35
Slumber-Song
36
/An Idolater
37
The New- Year Babe
38
Bicycles ! Tricycles
40
High and Low
41
Doctor Tumble-Bug
42
Close Quarters
43
The Time-Brood
44
Pains-Taking
45
A Rub
46
Cats
47
An Insectarian
48
The Squirrel
49
Hospitality
50
Frog Making
51
The Tree-Frog Pedigree
5^
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? V
Child Verse
PAGE
An Explanation
53
The Parlour and the Fly
54
No Go
55
A Mouse, A Cat, and an Irish Bull
56
The Same with a Difference
57
An Inconvenience
58
The Tryst
59
Etiquette
60
A Sunstroke
61
A Shuffle
62
Washington's Ruse
63
Panic
64
The End of It
65
A Little Child's Prayers
66
The Child: At Bethlehem
67^
To His Mother
68
A Lily of the Field
69
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? Child Verse
The Lamb-Child
PAGK
70
V A Pair of Turtle-Doves
71
Hide-and-Seek
72
Out of Bounds
73
y The Child on Calvary
74
i The Child: At Nazareth
75
\( St. Theresa and the Child
77
^ Tradition
78
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? CHILD VERSE
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HARE-BELLS
13 ING ! The little Rabbits' eyes,
-*-^ In the morning clear,
Moisten to the melodies
They alone can hear.
Ring ! The little Rabbits' feet,
Shod with racing rhyme.
If the breezes they would beat.
Must be beating time.
Ring !
When summer days are o'er,
And the snowfalls come,
Rabbits count the hours no more,
For the bells are dumb.
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AT COCK-CROW
/^~^ROW ! For the night has thrice denied
^^ The glory of the Sun,
And now, repentant, turns aside
To weep what he has done.
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A DUET
A LITTLE yellow Bird above,
^^^^ A little yellow Flower below;
The little Bird can sing the love
That Bird and Blossom know ;
The Blossom has no song nor wing,
But breathes the love he cannot sing.
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? Child Verse
THE BOBOLINK
A/OUR notes are few,
-*? But sweet your song
As honey-dew;
And all day long,
Dear Bobolink, a-listening,
I never tire to hear you sing.
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THE BLUEBIRD
T ^ THEN God had made a host of them,
^ ^ One little flower still lacked a stem
To hold its blossom blue ;
So into it He breathed a song,
And suddenly, with petals strong
As wings, away it flew.
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THE WOODPECKER
nPHE wizard of the woods is he ;
"*- For in his daily round,
Where'er he finds a rotting tree,
He makes the timber sound.
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? Child Verse
CHIMNEY STACKS
TN winter's cold and summer's heat
? *- The hospitable chimneys greet
Their never-failing guests ;
For when the sparks are upward gone,
The swallows downward come anon,
To build their neighboring nests.
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? Child Verse
BUTTERFLY
T3UTTERFLY, Butterfly, sipping the
? ^^ sand,
Have you forgotten the flowers of the land?
Or are you so sated with honey and dew
That sand-filtered water tastes better to you ?
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? Child Verse
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THE HONEY-BEE
BEE, good-by !
Your weapon's gone,
And you anon
Are doomed to die ;
But Death to you can bring
No second sting.
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? Child Verse
THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS
" "I "\ THY stand ye idle, blossoms bright,
' ' The livelong summer day ? "
" Alas ! we labour all the night
For what thou takest away. "
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? Child Verse
THE TAX-GATHERER
" A ND pray, who are you ? '
-^"^ Said the violet blue
To the Bee, with surprise
At his wonderful size,
In her eye-glass of dew.
" I, madam," quoth he,
" Am a publican Bee,
Collecting the tax
On honey and wax.
Have you nothing for me ? "
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? Child Verse
JACK-O'-LANTERN
JACK-O'-LANTERN, Jack-o'-Lantern,
Tell me where you hide by day ? "
" In the cradle where the vapours
Dream the sunlit hours away. "
" Jack-o'-Lantern, Jack-o'- Lantern,
Who rekindles you at night ? "
" Any firefly in the meadow
Lends a Jack-o'-Lantern light. "
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THE PLEIADS
"1 II /"HO are ye with clustered light,
' ' Little Sisters seven ? "
" Crickets, chirping all the night
On the hearth of heaven. "
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? Child Verse
JACK FROST'S APOLOGY
nnO strip you of your foliage
-? ? My spirit sorely grieves ;
Nor will I in the work engage
Unless you grant your leaves.
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? Child Verse
A CAVALCADE
nPH ISTLE-DOWN, Thistle<lown,
? *- whither away?
Will you not longer abide ? "
Nay, we have wedded the winds to-day,
And home with the rovers we ride. "
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SILK
' " I "WAS the shroud of many a worm-like
-*- thing
That rose from its tangled skein ;
'Twas the garb of many a god-like king
Who went to the worms again.
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SEED-TIME
A X /"HEN Trumpet-flowers begin to blow
^ ^ The Thistle-downs take heed,
For then they know 'tis time to go
And plant the winged seed.
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A LEGACY
T~^0 you remember, little cloud,
-? -^ This morning when you lay --
A mist along the river -- what
The waters had to say?
And how the many-coloured flowers
That on the margin grew,
All promised when the day was done
To leave their tints to you ?
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AMID THE ROSES
'T^HERE was laughter 'mid the Roses,
-*- For it was their natal day ;
And the children in the garden were
As light of heart as they.
There were sighs amid the Roses,
For the night was coming on ;
And the children -- weary now of play --
Were ready to be gone.
There are tears amid the Roses,
For the children are asleep ;
And the silence of the garden makes
The lonely blossoms weep.
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LIGHT AND SHADOW
LOVE you, little maid,"
Said the Sunbeam to the Shade,
As all day long she shrank away before him ;
But at twilight, ere he died,
She was weeping at his side ;
And he felt her tresses softly trailing o'er him.
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