AT THE SEA-SIDE

'HEN I was down beside the sea

WHE

A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore.

My holes were empty like a cup.
In every hole the sea came up,
Till it could come no more.

IV

YOUNG NIGHT THOUGHT

LL night long and every night,

ALL

A wight long and puts out the

When my mama puts out the light,

I see the people marching by,
As plain as day, before my eye.

Armies and emperors and kings,
All carrying different kinds of things,
And marching in so grand a way,
You never saw the like by day.

So fine a show was never seen
At the great circus on the green;
For every kind of beast and man
Is marching in that caravan.

At first they move a little slow,
But still the faster on they go,
And still beside them close I keep
Until we reach the town of Sleep.

A

WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN

CHILD should always say what's true

And speak when he is spoken to,

And behave mannerly at table;

At least as far as he is able.

VI

RAIN

'HE rain is raining all around,

THE

It falls on field and tree,

It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.

PIRATE STORY

HREE of us afloat in the meadow by the swing,

THE

Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea.

Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring, And waves are on the meadow like the waves there

are at sea.

Where shall we adventure, to-day that we're afloat,
Wary of the weather and steering by a star?
Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat,

To Providence, or Babylon, or off to Malabar?

Hi! but here's a squadron a-rowing on the sea-
Cattle on the meadow a-charging with a roar!
Quick, and we'll escape them, they're as mad as they
can be,

The wicket is the harbour and the garden is the shore.