Children of summer
CHILDREN OF SUMMER
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLORS
AND MONOTINT BY
VERSES BY
NEW YORK
Copyright, 1888, by
1888
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The Daisy.
In the breezy meadow tossing? It sees the wide blue overhead And the little cloud-flocks crossing.
'Round the sunny meadow glancing? It sees the butterflies' chase, And the filmy gnats at their dancing.
Down in the grassy thickets? The grasshoppers green and brown, And the nimble, coal-black crickets.
That no one else can discover, And the brooding mother-bird, With the floating grass above her. Edith M. Thomas. |
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July and the Bumble-bee.
Clover-blossoms in her hands; Bumble-bee comes buzzing after,— jacket brown with yellow bands.
North and south and east and west; And if I'm a judge of clover, You, July, have found the best!
That in fields and gardens lie, If you'll share the stolen treasures, In your dainty bands, July!"
(Grumble-bees the name for you!) But if ever you grow humble What you ask me, then I'll do!" Edith M. Thomas. |
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The Water-lily.
But yet she hides a secret never told; The dragon-fly could tell it, if he would;; The piping sand-lark too has understood!
Her lonely mystery makes me half afraid; When I my eager hands reach out to her, She floats away,—a fairy voyager!
A long time she must sleep in watery glooms; And when she dies, she droops her lovely head Down, down upon the river's shaded bed! Edith M. Thomas. |
