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Doubt not, little though there be,
But I'll cast a crumb to thee.

I'm rewarded if I spy

Pleasure glancing in thine eye;
See thee, when thou'st ate thy fill,
Plume thy breast and wipe thy bill.
Ask of me thy daily store,
Ever welcome to my door.

Langhorne.

29

A SUNBEAM.

If I were a sunbeam

I know what I would do,
I'd seek the whitest lilies
The rainy woodland through;
Stealing in among them,
The softest light I'd shed,
Until each grateful lily
Raised its drooping head.

If I were a sunbeam,

I know where I would go, Into the lowliest hovels,

All dark with want and woe; Till sad hearts look upward

I there would shine and shine;
Then they would think of heaven,

Their sweet home and mine.
Lucy Larcom.

30

THE CHILD AND THE PIPER.

Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he, laughing, said to me,
'Pipe a song about a lamb;'
So I piped with merry cheer.
Piper, pipe that song again;'
So I piped; he wept to hear.

'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe,
Sing thy songs of happy cheer;'
So I sang the same again,

While he wept with joy to hear.

'Piper, sit thee down and write
In a book, that all may read ;'
So he vanished from my sight,
And I plucked a hollow reed,

And I made a rural

pen,
And I stained the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.

W. Blake.

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