Children's Column. QUEERNESS.
It's queer when the world seems stGadyj It really is whirling so ; It's queer that the 1 plants get larger When no one can see them grow. It's queer that the fountain's water Leaps high in the sunshine bright, And queer that the modn can never Fall off the sky at night, It's queer that one closer blossom Is White and another is red, When the same black earth lurrOurids them, l*he same rain waters thair bed, It's queer that of all these Wonders We take so little heed ; And that as for feeling thankful, We seldom see the need, t
We scold if the Weather's chilly) And fret in the hot sunlight ; Don't like to get up in the morning) Hang back from the bed at night* Yet queerest of all the queerness Are surely those girls and boys "Who htfe in a world of beauty, And rather see woes than joys.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 29, 10 December 1898, Page 4
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156Children's Column. QUEERNESS. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 29, 10 December 1898, Page 4
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