I hope that all of you

Will gobble up the food as fast

As well-bred ducks should do.

You'd better get into the dish,
Unless it is too small;

In that case, I should use my foot,
And overturn it all.

The ducklings did as they were bid,
And found the plan so good,

That from that day, the other fowls
Got hardly any food.

-Aunt Effie

LITTLE JACK JELF

Little Jack Jelf

Was put on the shelf

Because he would not spell "pie;"
When his aunt, Mrs. Grace,
Saw his sorrowful face,

She could not help saying, “Oh, fie!”

And since Master Jelf

Was put on the shelf

Because he would not spell "pie,"
Let him stand there so grim!
And no more about him,

For I wish him a very good-bye!

-Mother Goose

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away

many shadows.

-St. Francis of Assisi

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Lullaby, oh, lullaby!

Flowers are closed and lambs are sleeping;

Lullaby, oh, lullaby!

'Stars are up, the moon is peeping;
Lullaby, oh, lullaby!

While the birds are silence keeping,
Lullaby, oh, lullaby!

Sleep, my baby, fall a-sleeping,
Lullaby, oh, lullaby!

-Christina G. Rossetti