FOR OUR BOYS & GIRLS

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 480, 14 June 1890, Page 6

FOR OUR BOYS & GIRLS

EDITED BY MRS FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT. FANCIES. By Mauy A. P. Stansbky. [Copyright, 1890, by S. S. McClure.] Under my window the nesting birds Swing and sing, while the children play. Which is the sweeter, this summer day. The wordless song, or the song-clear words; Hark to the question over-wise. That Milicent ponders with half-shut eyes, On her couch of clover, with dew-drops pearled, • 1 wonder, how aid God make the world ' •Listen,' sars Kdif.h, Til tell you how! As I blow the bubbles here in he sun— Glowing and growing and, when it was done, lie breathed on softly, a3l do now. • And it floated away so far and free. Green for the land, blue for the sea: And the soft, white clouds ahout it curled— It was so, I think, that God made the world. ’ ‘ Mol’ cries Ned. ‘As I roll the clay. Soft and brown, in the palm of my hand. Shaping the mountains like kings to stand Crowned with their snow-gems, marking a way • For (he streams to run through valleys deep To the hollow sea, over plain and steep, Flinging the forests like flags unfurledAh! that were the way to make the world . ■ But Milicent smiles to herself the while, Softly shaking her golden head. •Last night,’ she whispers, ‘awake on my I thought of the sweetbricr down by the stile- • And what do you think I found to-rlay ? But the first pink rose on a bending spray; Perhaps—in Heaven—long, long ago. God thought of the world and it blossomed so .