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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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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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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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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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FOOT-SOLDIERS
npIS all the way to Toe-town,
? ^ Beyond the Knee-high hill,
That Baby has to travel down
To see the soldiers drill.
One, two, three, four, five, a-row --
A captain and his men --
And on the other side, you know.
Are six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
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THE BABY'S STAR
nPHE Star that watched you in your sleep
-^ Has just put out his light.
" Good-day, to you on earth," he said,
" Is here in heaven Good-night.
" But tell the Baby when he wakes
To watch for my return ;
For ril hang out my lamp again
When his begins to burn. "
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? Child Verse
SLUMBER-SONG
O, in the west
A cloud at rest --
A babe upon its mother's breast
Is sleeping now.
L'
Above it beams
A star that seems
To shed the light of holy dreams
Upon its brow.
But cloud and star,
Tho' nearer far
They seem, my Babe, more distant are
From heaven than thou.
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SLEEP
WHEN he is a little chap,
We call him Nap.
When he somewhat older grows,
We call him Doze.
When his age by hours we number,
We call him Slumber.
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THE FIRE-FLY
" A RE you flying through the night
-^^^ Looking where to find me ? "
" Nay ; I travel with a light
For the folks behind me. "
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AN IDOLATER
'THHE Baby has no skies
? *- But Mother's eyes,
Nor any God above
But Mother's Love.
His angel sees the Father's face,
But he the Mother's, full of grace ;
And yet the heavenly kingdom is
Of such as this.
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THE NEW-YEAR BABE
nnWO together, Babe and Year,
-? - At the midnight chime,
Through the darkness drifted here
To the coast of Time.
Two together, Babe and Year,
Over night and day,
Crossed the desert Winter drear
To the land of May.
On together, Babe and Year
Swift to Summer passed.
" Rest a moment. Brother dear,"
Said the Babe at last.
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" Nay, but onward," answered Year,
" We must farther go,
Through the Vale of Autumn sere
To the Mount of Snow. "
Toiling upward. Babe and Year
Climbed the frozen height.
" We may rest together here.
Brother Babe, -- Good-night ! "
Then together Babe and Year
Slept ; but ere the dawn,
Vanishing, I know not where.
Brother Year was gone !
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? Child Verse
BICYCLES! TRICYCLES!
TDICYCLES! Tricycles! Nay, to shun
-*^ laughter,
Try cycles first, and buy cycles after ;
For surely the buyer deserves but the worst
Who would buy cycles, failing to try cycles
first.
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HIGH AND LOW
A BOOT and a Shoe and a Slipper
-^^ Lived once in the Cobbler's row :
But the Boot and the Shoe
Would have nothing to do
With the Slipper, because she was low.
But the king and the queen and their
daughter
On the Cobbler chanced to call ;
And as neither the Boot
Nor the Shoe would suit
The Slipper went off to the ball.
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? Child Verse
DOCTOR TUMBLE-BUG
X yl HTH wondrous skill
' ^ He works until,
To suit himself, he makes it
A patent Pill,
To cure or kill
The sufferer that takes it.
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CLOSE QUARTERS
T ITTLE toe, big toe, three toes between,
-? -- ' All in a pointed shoe !
Never was narrower forecastle seen
Nor so little room for the crew.
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THE TIME-BROOD
WONDER how the mother-Hour
I
Can feed each hungry Minute,
And see that every one of them
Gets sixty seconds in it ;
And whether, when she goes abroad,
She knows which ones attend her ;
For all of them are just alike
In age and size and gender.
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PAINS-TAKING
" 'T^AKE pains," growled the Tooth to the
-L Dentist ;
" The same," said the Dentist, " to you. "
Then he added, " No doubt.
Before you are out
You'll have taken most pains of the two. "
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A RUB
WIXT Handkerchief and Nose
A difference arose ;
And a tradition goes
That they settled it by blows.
T
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CATS
" I "HEY fought like demons of the night
-^ Beneath a shrunken moon,
And all the roof at dawn of light
y^W^s. fiddle-strings was strewn.
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AN INSECTARIAN
T CANNOT wash my dog," she said,
-? - " Nor touch him with a comb,
For fear the Fleas upon him bred
May find no other home. "
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THE SQUIRREL
HO combs you, little Squirrel ?
w
And do you twist and twirl
When some one puts the papers on
To keep your tail in curl ?
And must you see the dentist
For every tooth you break ?
And are you apt from eating nuts
To get the stomach-ache ?
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HOSPITALITY
O AID a Snake to a Frog with a wrinkled
*^ skin,
"As I notice, dear, that your dress is thin,
And a rain is coming, I'll take you in. "
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FROG-MAKING
O AID Frog papa to Frog mamma,
*^ " Where is our little daughter ? "
Said Frog mamma to Frog papa,
" She's underneath the water/'
Then down the anxious father went,
And there, indeed, he found her,
A-tickling tadpoles, till they kicked
Their tails off all around her.
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THE TREE-FROG PEDIGREE
/^UR great ancestor, Polly Wog,
^-^ With her cousin, Thaddeus Pole,
Eloped from her home in an Irish bog.
And crossing the sea on the " Mayflower's "
log,
At the risk of body and soul,
Married a Frog ; and thus, you see,
How we come by a place in the family-tree
And the family name, Tree-frog.
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AN EXPLANATION
nPO the young lady Toad said her mother,
? ^ " How had you the boldness, my dear,
To propose to Miss Polliwog's brother? "
"Why, mamma," she replied, *''tis leap
year! "
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THE PARLOUR AND THE FLY
"'1 1 HLL you walk into the Spider? "
^ ^ Said the Parlour to the Fly;
" He's the emptiest little spider
That ever you did spy.
" And he covers me with cobweb ;
So I want you to go in ;
For -- his lower chamber furnished --
He will have no room to spin. "
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NO GO
O AID a simpering Butterfly, sipping a rose,
^^ To a graceless Mosquito on grand-
papa's nose,
Whom she hoped to entrap,
** Pray come, Sir, and taste of this delicate
stuff. "
" Thanks, Madam, I'm just now taking my
snuff,"
Quoth the impudent chap.
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A MOUSE, A CAT, AND AN IRISH
BULL
A LITTLE mouse nibbled a Limburger
-^^^ cheese,
And back to his bedchamber stole,
Whence never again was he destined to
squeeze,
For the smell was too large for the hole.
And a Pussy Cat, passing, instinctively stood ;
For her appetite urged her to try it ;
But she answered her stomach that grumbled
for food,
" I should die if I lived on such diet. "
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THE SAME WITH A DIFFERENCE
\ ^ /"HEN first they wed he was a sing-er,
^ ^ And much delight his songs did
bring her;
But nowadays he proves a sin-ger,
And makes it hot for her as ginger.
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AN INCONVENIENCE
nnO his cousin the Bat
? *- Squeaked the envious Rat,
" How fine to be able to fly ! "
Tittered she, " Leather wings
Are convenient things ;
But nothing fo sit on have I. "
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