THOUGHTS ON A NURSERY RHYME.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 52, 28 September 1878, Page 3

THOUGHTS ON A NURSERY RHYME.

■' Hi ili-Mle diddle, li„. , ,t a,„| ,1:,. fiddle. Tl ■«• jumped 0v.,-the ia„oa, The little do- laughed to -:*■ 5,,,-], sport. And tie- dish ran awavv.ith the .' ~." Nursery st .ry. And te!!s,7wondrous incident-., We n. v,r heai-J before. Tl...vi^„fW.-twas,.rrlu. l H 'I lie poet's besom Ih-ed, And him incline,! to UDle events With melody inspired. The fuddle's sound, not that of Lvro, Uure pleasure In ~- brings, ' Ami from the viseus of the Cat 1' made our music strings. As in the Stella fam-ilv Is found the winged Horse. Th- Fox and Goose, and Hear and Lion, The Bull upon his conrso. Win- nol tlie C,w in gaiety Amid the bright array, ' Especially when all eaa'see There is a Milky Way. And as a dipper and a dish Ar n in starlight clear, It is not strange tn common sense, A spoon and dish appear. No doubt a dog dwells in the throng, _ Se.-a in a greenish fiamo— Familiar to astronomers, And Serins by name. ft wondrous seems a cow could spring, And everhap the moon, And tluil a dish ill Bportivoncss, Should run away the iqiuon. Yet with our headlights wo can't see, With feelings of surprise, Such things as the astronomer Beheld with clearer eyes. W,-Know however that Venus has, By natural causi s borne. Approuched the moon aiu! ■ f'.lv sat Cpoii its silver bora. Perhaps she thought a man (sojourned Within tho lunar sphere, , And moved by curiosity, She lost no'time to peer. But with a disappointed hope, \ She blowly moved afar, And then passed o'er the august moon, The more attrui live star. rhoiigh men in this progressive ago Deny this story's truth, It is not so with juveniles, ' With unsuspecting youth. < I'hev believed suoh things occurred, < Heli- .used iii language plain. t I'he story which such pleasure gives, | Was not produced in vain. ) I