You with the bean that I gave when we quarrelled, GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN HILDREN, you are very little, CHALD And your bones are very brittle; If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately. You must still be bright and quiet, Happy hearts and happy faces, But the unkind and the unruly, Cruel children, crying babies, By their nephews and their nieces. XXVIII FOREIGN CHILDREN ITTLE Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me? You have seen the scarlet trees And the lions over seas; You have eaten ostrich eggs, And turned the turtles off their legs. Such a life is very fine, But it's not so nice as mine: You have curious things to eat, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me? THE SUN'S TRAVELS 'HE sun is not a-bed, when I THE At night upon my pillow lie; Still round the earth his way he takes, And morning after morning makes. While here at home, in shining day, And when at eve I rise from tea, XXX THE LAMPLIGHTER Metime to take the window to see Leerie going by; Y tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; For every night at teatime and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street. Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea, For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door, And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more; And O! before you hurry by with ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night! |