" I, madam," quoth he,
" Am a publican Bee,
Collecting the tax
On honey and wax.
" Am a publican Bee,
Collecting the tax
On honey and wax.
Childrens - Child Verse
net/2027/loc.
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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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/
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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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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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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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. "
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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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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
THE DRAGON-FLY
" TS skimming o'er a stagnant pool
-? - Your only occupation ? "
" Ah, no : 'tis at this Summer School
I get my education. "
25
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? Child Verse
ARCHERY
A BOW across the sky
-^^^ Another in the river,
Whence swallows upward fly,
Like arrows from a quiver.
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? Child Verse
A SPY
OIGHED the languid Moon to the Morn-
*^ ing Star :
"O little maid, how late you are ! "
" I couldn't rise from my couch," quoth she,
" While the Man-in-the-Moon was looking at
me. "
27
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? Child Verse
A LAMENT
OLADY CLOUD, why are you weep-
ing? " I said.
Because," she made answer, " my rain-beau
is dead. "
28
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? Child Verse
FERN SONG
DANCE to the beat of the rain, little
Fern,
And spread oiit your palms again,
And say, " Tho' the sun
Hath my vesture spun.
He had laboured, alas, in vain.
But for the shade
That the Cloud hath made.
And the gift of the Dew and the Rain. "
Then laugh and upturn
All your fronds, little Fern,
And rejoice in the beat of the rain !
29
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? Child Verse
THE BROOK
TT is the mountain to the sea
^ That makes a messenger of me ;
And, lest I loiter on the way
And lose what I am sent to say,
He sets his reverie to song,
And bids me sing it all day long.
Farewell ! for here the stream is slow.
And I have many a mile to go.
3?
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? Child Verse (
AN INTERVIEW
T SAT with chill December
-*- Beside the evening fire.
" And what do you remember,
I ventured to inquire,
" Of seasons long forsaken ? "
He answered in amaze,
" My age you have mistaken ;
I've lived but thirty days! '
31
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BABY'S DIMPLES
T OVE goes playing hide-and-seek
-*-^ 'Mid the roses on her cheek,
With a little imp of Laughter,
Who, the . while he follows after.
Leaves the footprints that we trace
All about the Kissing-place.
32
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A BUNCH OF ROSES
THE rosy mouth and rosy toe
Of little baby brother
Until about a month ago
Had never met each other ;
Bu^ nowadays the neighbours sweet,
In every sort of weather,
Half way with rosy fingers meet,
To kiss and play together.
33
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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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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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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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? 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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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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? 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.
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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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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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THE DRAGON-FLY
" TS skimming o'er a stagnant pool
-? - Your only occupation ? "
" Ah, no : 'tis at this Summer School
I get my education. "
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ARCHERY
A BOW across the sky
-^^^ Another in the river,
Whence swallows upward fly,
Like arrows from a quiver.
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? Child Verse
A SPY
OIGHED the languid Moon to the Morn-
*^ ing Star :
"O little maid, how late you are ! "
" I couldn't rise from my couch," quoth she,
" While the Man-in-the-Moon was looking at
me. "
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? Child Verse
A LAMENT
OLADY CLOUD, why are you weep-
ing? " I said.
Because," she made answer, " my rain-beau
is dead. "
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FERN SONG
DANCE to the beat of the rain, little
Fern,
And spread oiit your palms again,
And say, " Tho' the sun
Hath my vesture spun.
He had laboured, alas, in vain.
But for the shade
That the Cloud hath made.
And the gift of the Dew and the Rain. "
Then laugh and upturn
All your fronds, little Fern,
And rejoice in the beat of the rain !
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THE BROOK
TT is the mountain to the sea
^ That makes a messenger of me ;
And, lest I loiter on the way
And lose what I am sent to say,
He sets his reverie to song,
And bids me sing it all day long.
Farewell ! for here the stream is slow.
And I have many a mile to go.
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AN INTERVIEW
T SAT with chill December
-*- Beside the evening fire.
" And what do you remember,
I ventured to inquire,
" Of seasons long forsaken ? "
He answered in amaze,
" My age you have mistaken ;
I've lived but thirty days! '
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BABY'S DIMPLES
T OVE goes playing hide-and-seek
-*-^ 'Mid the roses on her cheek,
With a little imp of Laughter,
Who, the . while he follows after.
Leaves the footprints that we trace
All about the Kissing-place.
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A BUNCH OF ROSES
THE rosy mouth and rosy toe
Of little baby brother
Until about a month ago
Had never met each other ;
Bu^ nowadays the neighbours sweet,
In every sort of weather,
Half way with rosy fingers meet,
To kiss and play together.
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