CHILD'S PLAY.
4 (By Nathan Haskell Dole.) In happy childhood's days I blew Great iridisccnt globes that flew High in the air like swift, balloons. Or whirled liko new-created moons In strange, erratic orbs around Some distant' sun 1 never found. Now, older but not wiser grown, A fairer bubble have I blown. Of sun-kissed loveliness impended, It filled llio limits uf the world And seemed us if 'Iwero meant to Inst; 11. was so exquisite, so vast, Ho visionlike, so heavenly bright, i saw in it all life's delight. Illusion! II was film so rare That even when it seemed most fair A hnstv word its fabric, jarred— Strange l.haf a breath should strike so hnrd! It burst, and Ihere was nothing left To tell of what 1 was berefl, Except a sprinkle of hot lca.rs, As when a buLblc disappears! —"iltlnsev's."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 13, 23 December 1911, Page 14
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143CHILD'S PLAY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 13, 23 December 1911, Page 14
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