CHILDREN’S VERSES.
WISDOM. I tore to see you peering into books, "With air profound, Regarding me with disapproving looks; And I'll be bound You label me a fool because, forsooth, I do not go To your dull tomes to dig out truth ’ I fain would know. But musty books could ne’er reveal to me The reason why On yonder hill it strives that slender tree To reach the sky. Or why that bird, with flaunting, painted crest, Befriended me, And from my heart chased sadness and unrest , So happily, And left me, in their stead, a shining song I Show me, my dear,
This secret in your printed books, and long in them I’ll peer. You cannot? Ah, I know I’ll never find Spch simple things; Yet Nature’s book Is free to all mankind — Wisdom it brings. A fig for all your sombre books, my dear. Now I shall go Out with the Wind, and he will tell me olear All -I woujd know. —lvy Gibbs. ' MY LITTLE BROTHER.
I love you well, my little brother, And you are fond of me; Let us be kind to one another, As brothers ought to be. You shall learn to play with me, And learn to use my -toys, And then I think that we shall be Two happy little boys.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17976, 22 March 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)
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219CHILDREN’S VERSES. Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17976, 22 March 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)
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