{"1": {"fulltext": "OilH)\\nVEBSE\\nPoems Grave Qayi", "height": "3024", "width": "2390", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "V\\nv^\\n-^c^,\\n*..o^ ,v\\n0^ A^\\nl4 V I\\n,0 o^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r%\\nZo^\\ni,^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i^i- %i;5-;*^", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "CO\\n,0 o^\\n^z. .-i^\\n^^^^^a:^.\\n.x^^\\n,0o.\\nf 4 S\\nV\\n.-y\\ncV\\n\u00c2\u00b0^X\\nOo,\\n^^V^^^^^\\n,-3^-\\n.x^^ -^%-c^^\\n^c5=^r^~^,^\\nt.^\\n.i ^t.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "Child Verse Poems Grave and Gay", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "^tilW\\n]T nall^ a!/nard Compar w. f\\n1 Boston 1899 I 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 sJ", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "V O COPIES ln;fa:(jb;iv\\nCopyright, i8gg\\nOffice f thO\\nBy Small, Maynard Company\\nNOV2 01\u00c2\u00abQP\\n(^Incorporated.)\\nRegister of Copyrights\\nEntered at Stationers Hall\\n48674\\nSECOND COPY,\\nThe Rockwell and Churchill Press\\nBoston, U.S.A.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "MV LITTLE FRIEND\\nl enr^ Btnneen\\nWITH MY\\nLOVE AND BLESSING", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "NOTE\\nSOME of these verses have\\nappeared in other places:\\none in St. Nicholas, one in\\nHarper s Young People; and\\nthe Sunday School Times,\\nthe Youth s Companion, and\\nthe Independent have each\\npublished others. To this\\nclass belong, I think, all I re-\\nprint from my Poems and\\nLyrics. Most of the contents,\\nhowever, is new.\\nJ. B. T.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nCONTENTS\\nFACE\\nHare-bells\\n3\\nAt Cock-Crow\\n4\\nA Duet\\n5\\nThe Bobolink\\n6\\nThe Bluebird\\n7\\nThe Woodpecker\\n8\\nChimney Stacks\\n9\\nButterfly\\nlO\\nThe Honey Bee\\nII\\nThe Bee and the Blossoms\\n12\\nThe Tax-Gatherer\\n13\\nJack-o -Lantern\\nH\\nThe Pleiads\\n15\\nJack Frost s Apology\\ni6\\nA Cavalcade\\n17", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nPAGE\\nSilk\\ni8\\nSeed-Time\\n19\\nA Legacy\\n20\\nAmid the Roses\\n21\\nLight and Shadow\\n22\\nSleep\\n23\\nThe Fire-Fly\\n24\\ns/ The Dragon-Fly\\n25\\nArchery\\n26\\nA Spy\\n27\\nA Lament\\n28\\nFern Song\\n29\\nThe Brook\\n30\\n\\\\f An Interview\\n31\\nBaby s Dimples\\n32\\nj A Bunch of Roses\\n33\\nFoot-Soldiers\\n34", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Child Versd\\nPAGE\\nThe Baby s Star\\n35\\nSlumber-Song\\n36\\n/An Idolater\\n37\\nThe New- Year Babe\\n38\\nBicycles Tricycles\\n40\\nHigh and Low\\n41\\nDoctor Tumble-Bug\\n42\\nClose Quarters\\n43\\nThe Time-Brood\\n44\\nPains-Taking\\n45\\nA Rub\\n46\\nCats\\n47\\nAn Insectarian\\n48\\nThe Squirrel\\n49\\nHospitality\\n50\\nFrog Making\\n51\\nThe Tree-Frog Pedigree\\n5^", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "V\\nChild Verse\\nPAGE\\nAn Explanation\\n53\\nThe Parlour and the Fly\\n54\\nNo Go\\n55\\nA Mouse, A Cat, and an Irish Bull\\n56\\nThe Same with a Difference\\n57\\nAn Inconvenience\\n58\\nThe Tryst\\n59\\nEtiquette\\n60\\nA Sunstroke\\n61\\nA Shuffle\\n62\\nWashington s Ruse\\n63\\nPanic\\n64\\nThe End of It\\n65\\nA Little Child s Prayers\\n66\\nThe Child: At Bethlehem\\n67^\\nTo His Mother\\n68\\nA Lily of the Field\\n69", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nThe Lamb-Child\\nPAGK\\n70\\nV A Pair of Turtle-Doves\\n71\\nHide-and-Seek\\n72\\nOut of Bounds\\n73\\ny The Child on Calvary\\n74\\ni The Child: At Nazareth\\n75\\nSt. Theresa and the Child\\n77\\nTradition\\n78", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "CHILD VERSE", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CHILD VERSE\\nHARE-BELLS\\n13 ING The little Rabbits eyes,\\nIn the morning clear,\\nMoisten to the melodies\\nThey alone can hear.\\nRing The little Rabbits feet,\\nShod with racing rhyme.\\nIf the breezes they would beat.\\nMust be beating time.\\nRing When summer days are o er,\\nAnd the snowfalls come,\\nRabbits count the hours no more,\\nFor the bells are dumb.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nAT COCK-CROW\\n/^~^ROW For the night has thrice denied\\nThe glory of the Sun,\\nAnd now, repentant, turns aside\\nTo weep what he has done.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nA DUET\\nA LITTLE yellow Bird above,\\nA little yellow Flower below;\\nThe little Bird can sing the love\\nThat Bird and Blossom know\\nThe Blossom has no song nor wing,\\nBut breathes the love he cannot sing.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE BOBOLINK\\nA/OUR notes are few,\\nBut sweet your song\\nAs honey-dew;\\nAnd all day long,\\nDear Bobolink, a-listening,\\nI never tire to hear you sing.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE BLUEBIRD\\nT THEN God had made a host of them,\\nOne little flower still lacked a stem\\nTo hold its blossom blue\\nSo into it He breathed a song,\\nAnd suddenly, with petals strong\\nAs wings, away it flew.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE WOODPECKER\\nnPHE wizard of the woods is he\\nFor in his daily round,\\nWhere er he finds a rotting tree,\\nHe makes the timber sound.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nCHIMNEY STACKS\\nTN winter s cold and summer s heat\\nThe hospitable chimneys greet\\nTheir never-failing guests\\nFor when the sparks are upward gone,\\nThe swallows downward come anon,\\nTo build their neighboring nests.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nBUTTERFLY\\nT3UTTERFLY, Butterfly, sipping the\\nsand,\\nHave you forgotten the flowers of the land?\\nOr are you so sated with honey and dew\\nThat sand-filtered water tastes better to you", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\no\\nTHE HONEY-BEE\\nBEE, good-by\\nYour weapon s gone,\\nAnd you anon\\nAre doomed to die\\nBut Death to you can bring\\nNo second sting.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS\\nI THY stand ye idle, blossoms bright,\\nThe livelong summer day\\nAlas we labour all the night\\nFor what thou takest away.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE TAX-GATHERER\\nA ND pray, who are you\\nSaid the violet blue\\nTo the Bee, with surprise\\nAt his wonderful size,\\nIn her eye-glass of dew.\\nI, madam, quoth he,\\nAm a publican Bee,\\nCollecting the tax\\nOn honey and wax.\\nHave you nothing for me", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nJACK-O -LANTERN\\nJACK-O -LANTERN, Jack-o -Lantern,\\nTell me where you hide by day\\nIn the cradle where the vapours\\nDream the sunlit hours away.\\nJack-o -Lantern, Jack-o Lantern,\\nWho rekindles you at night\\nAny firefly in the meadow\\nLends a Jack-o -Lantern light.\\nH", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE PLEIADS\\n1 II HO are ye with clustered light,\\nLittle Sisters seven\\nCrickets, chirping all the night\\nOn the hearth of heaven.\\n15", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nJACK FROST S APOLOGY\\nnnO strip you of your foliage\\nMy spirit sorely grieves\\nNor will I in the work engage\\nUnless you grant your leaves.\\ni6", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nA CAVALCADE\\nnPH ISTLE-DOWN, Thistle lown,\\nwhither away?\\nWill you not longer abide\\nNay, we have wedded the winds to-day,\\nAnd home with the rovers we ride.\\n17", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nSILK\\nI WAS the shroud of many a worm-like\\nthing\\nThat rose from its tangled skein\\nTwas the garb of many a god-like king\\nWho went to the worms again.\\ni8", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nSEED-TIME\\nA X HEN Trumpet-flowers begin to blow\\nThe Thistle-downs take heed,\\nFor then they know tis time to go\\nAnd plant the winged seed.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nA LEGACY\\nT~^0 you remember, little cloud,\\nThis morning when you lay\\nA mist along the river what\\nThe waters had to say?\\nAnd how the many-coloured flowers\\nThat on the margin grew,\\nAll promised when the day was done\\nTo leave their tints to you", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nAMID THE ROSES\\nT^HERE was laughter mid the Roses,\\nFor it was their natal day\\nAnd the children in the garden were\\nAs light of heart as they.\\nThere were sighs amid the Roses,\\nFor the night was coming on\\nAnd the children weary now of play\\nWere ready to be gone.\\nThere are tears amid the Roses,\\nFor the children are asleep\\nAnd the silence of the garden makes\\nThe lonely blossoms weep.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nI\\nLIGHT AND SHADOW\\nLOVE you, little maid,\\nSaid the Sunbeam to the Shade,\\nAs all day long she shrank away before him\\nBut at twilight, ere he died,\\nShe was weeping at his side\\nAnd he felt her tresses softly trailing o er him.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE DRAGON-FLY\\nTS skimming o er a stagnant pool\\nYour only occupation\\nAh, no tis at this Summer School\\nI get my education.\\n25", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nARCHERY\\nA BOW across the sky\\nAnother in the river,\\nWhence swallows upward fly,\\nLike arrows from a quiver.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nA SPY\\nOIGHED the languid Moon to the Morn-\\ning Star\\nO little maid, how late you are\\nI couldn t rise from my couch, quoth she,\\nWhile the Man-in-the-Moon was looking at\\nme.\\n27", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nA LAMENT\\nOLADY CLOUD, why are you weep-\\ning? I said.\\nBecause, she made answer, my rain-beau\\nis dead.\\n28", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nFERN SONG\\nDANCE to the beat of the rain, little\\nFern,\\nAnd spread oiit your palms again,\\nAnd say, Tho the sun\\nHath my vesture spun.\\nHe had laboured, alas, in vain.\\nBut for the shade\\nThat the Cloud hath made.\\nAnd the gift of the Dew and the Rain.\\nThen laugh and upturn\\nAll your fronds, little Fern,\\nAnd rejoice in the beat of the rain\\n29", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE BROOK\\nTT is the mountain to the sea\\nThat makes a messenger of me\\nAnd, lest I loiter on the way\\nAnd lose what I am sent to say,\\nHe sets his reverie to song,\\nAnd bids me sing it all day long.\\nFarewell for here the stream is slow.\\nAnd I have many a mile to go.\\n3\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nAN INTERVIEW\\nT SAT with chill December\\nBeside the evening fire.\\nAnd what do you remember,\\nI ventured to inquire,\\nOf seasons long forsaken\\nHe answered in amaze,\\nMy age you have mistaken\\nI ve lived but thirty days!\\n31", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nBABY S DIMPLES\\nT OVE goes playing hide-and-seek\\nMid the roses on her cheek,\\nWith a little imp of Laughter,\\nWho, the .while he follows after.\\nLeaves the footprints that we trace\\nAll about the Kissing-place.\\n32", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nA BUNCH OF ROSES\\nTHE rosy mouth and rosy toe\\nOf little baby brother\\nUntil about a month ago\\nHad never met each other\\nBu^ nowadays the neighbours sweet,\\nIn every sort of weather,\\nHalf way with rosy fingers meet,\\nTo kiss and play together.\\n33", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nFOOT-SOLDIERS\\nnpIS all the way to Toe-town,\\nBeyond the Knee-high hill,\\nThat Baby has to travel down\\nTo see the soldiers drill.\\nOne, two, three, four, five, a-row\\nA captain and his men\\nAnd on the other side, you know.\\nAre six, seven, eight, nine, ten.\\n34", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE BABY S STAR\\nnPHE Star that watched you in your sleep\\nHas just put out his light.\\nGood-day, to you on earth, he said,\\nIs here in heaven Good-night.\\nBut tell the Baby when he wakes\\nTo watch for my return\\nFor ril hang out my lamp again\\nWhen his begins to burn.\\n35", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nSLUMBER-SONG\\nO, in the west\\nA cloud at rest\\nA babe upon its mother s breast\\nIs sleeping now.\\nL\\nAbove it beams\\nA star that seems\\nTo shed the light of holy dreams\\nUpon its brow.\\nBut cloud and star,\\nTho nearer far\\nThey seem, my Babe, more distant are\\nFrom heaven than thou.\\n36", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nSLEEP\\nWHEN he is a little chap,\\nWe call him Nap.\\nWhen he somewhat older grows,\\nWe call him Doze.\\nWhen his age by hours we number,\\nWe call him Slumber.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE FIRE-FLY\\nA RE you flying through the night\\nLooking where to find me\\nNay I travel with a light\\nFor the folks behind me.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nAN IDOLATER\\nTHHE Baby has no skies\\nBut Mother s eyes,\\nNor any God above\\nBut Mother s Love.\\nHis angel sees the Father s face,\\nBut he the Mother s, full of grace\\nAnd yet the heavenly kingdom is\\nOf such as this.\\n37", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE NEW-YEAR BABE\\nnnWO together, Babe and Year,\\nAt the midnight chime,\\nThrough the darkness drifted here\\nTo the coast of Time.\\nTwo together, Babe and Year,\\nOver night and day,\\nCrossed the desert Winter drear\\nTo the land of May.\\nOn together, Babe and Year\\nSwift to Summer passed.\\nRest a moment. Brother dear,\\nSaid the Babe at last.\\n38", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nNay, but onward, answered Year,\\nWe must farther go,\\nThrough the Vale of Autumn sere\\nTo the Mount of Snow.\\nToiling upward. Babe and Year\\nClimbed the frozen height.\\nWe may rest together here.\\nBrother Babe, Good-night\\nThen together Babe and Year\\nSlept but ere the dawn,\\nVanishing, I know not where.\\nBrother Year was gone\\n39", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nBICYCLES! TRICYCLES!\\nTDICYCLES! Tricycles! Nay, to shun\\nlaughter,\\nTry cycles first, and buy cycles after\\nFor surely the buyer deserves but the worst\\nWho would buy cycles, failing to try cycles\\nfirst.\\n40", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nHIGH AND LOW\\nA BOOT and a Shoe and a Slipper\\nLived once in the Cobbler s row\\nBut the Boot and the Shoe\\nWould have nothing to do\\nWith the Slipper, because she was low.\\nBut the king and the queen and their\\ndaughter\\nOn the Cobbler chanced to call\\nAnd as neither the Boot\\nNor the Shoe would suit\\nThe Slipper went off to the ball.\\nf 4", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nDOCTOR TUMBLE-BUG\\nX yl HTH wondrous skill\\nHe works until,\\nTo suit himself, he makes it\\nA patent Pill,\\nTo cure or kill\\nThe sufferer that takes it.\\n42", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nCLOSE QUARTERS\\nT ITTLE toe, big toe, three toes between,\\nAll in a pointed shoe\\nNever was narrower forecastle seen\\nNor so little room for the crew.\\n43", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE TIME-BROOD\\nWONDER how the mother-Hour\\nI\\nCan feed each hungry Minute,\\nAnd see that every one of them\\nGets sixty seconds in it\\nAnd whether, when she goes abroad,\\nShe knows which ones attend her\\nFor all of them are just alike\\nIn age and size and gender.\\n44", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nPAINS-TAKING\\nT^AKE pains, growled the Tooth to the\\n-L Dentist\\nThe same, said the Dentist, to you.\\nThen he added, No doubt.\\nBefore you are out\\nYou ll have taken most pains of the two.\\n45", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nA RUB\\nWIXT Handkerchief and Nose\\nA difference arose\\nAnd a tradition goes\\nThat they settled it by blows.\\nT\\n46", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nCATS\\nI HEY fought like demons of the night\\nBeneath a shrunken moon,\\nAnd all the roof at dawn of light\\ny^W^s. fiddle-strings was strewn.\\n47", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nAN INSECTARIAN\\nT CANNOT wash my dog, she said,\\nNor touch him with a comb,\\nFor fear the Fleas upon him bred\\nMay find no other home.\\n48", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE SQUIRREL\\nHO combs you, little Squirrel\\nw\\nAnd do you twist and twirl\\nWhen some one puts the papers on\\nTo keep your tail in curl\\nAnd must you see the dentist\\nFor every tooth you break\\nAnd are you apt from eating nuts\\nTo get the stomach-ache\\n49", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nHOSPITALITY\\nO AID a Snake to a Frog with a wrinkled\\nskin,\\nAs I notice, dear, that your dress is thin,\\nAnd a rain is coming, I ll take you in.\\n50", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nFROG-MAKING\\nO AID Frog papa to Frog mamma,\\nWhere is our little daughter\\nSaid Frog mamma to Frog papa,\\nShe s underneath the water/\\nThen down the anxious father went,\\nAnd there, indeed, he found her,\\nA-tickling tadpoles, till they kicked\\nTheir tails off all around her.\\n51", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE TREE-FROG PEDIGREE\\n/^UR great ancestor, Polly Wog,\\nWith her cousin, Thaddeus Pole,\\nEloped from her home in an Irish bog.\\nAnd crossing the sea on the Mayflower s\\nlog,\\nAt the risk of body and soul,\\nMarried a Frog and thus, you see,\\nHow we come by a place in the family-tree\\nAnd the family name, Tree-frog.\\n52", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nAN EXPLANATION\\nnPO the young lady Toad said her mother,\\nHow had you the boldness, my dear,\\nTo propose to Miss Polliwog s brother?\\nWhy, mamma, she replied, tis leap\\nyear!\\n53", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE PARLOUR AND THE FLY\\n1 1 HLL you walk into the Spider?\\nSaid the Parlour to the Fly;\\nHe s the emptiest little spider\\nThat ever you did spy.\\nAnd he covers me with cobweb\\nSo I want you to go in\\nFor his lower chamber furnished\\nHe will have no room to spin.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nNO GO\\nO AID a simpering Butterfly, sipping a rose,\\nTo a graceless Mosquito on grand-\\npapa s nose,\\nWhom she hoped to entrap,\\nPray come, Sir, and taste of this delicate\\nstuff.\\nThanks, Madam, I m just now taking my\\nsnuff,\\nQuoth the impudent chap.\\n55", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nA MOUSE, A CAT, AND AN IRISH\\nBULL\\nA LITTLE mouse nibbled a Limburger\\ncheese,\\nAnd back to his bedchamber stole,\\nWhence never again was he destined to\\nsqueeze,\\nFor the smell was too large for the hole.\\nAnd a Pussy Cat, passing, instinctively stood\\nFor her appetite urged her to try it\\nBut she answered her stomach that grumbled\\nfor food,\\nI should die if I lived on such diet.\\n56", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE SAME WITH A DIFFERENCE\\nHEN first they wed he was a sing-er,\\nAnd much delight his songs did\\nbring her;\\nBut nowadays he proves a sin-ger,\\nAnd makes it hot for her as ginger.\\n57", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nAN INCONVENIENCE\\nnnO his cousin the Bat\\nSqueaked the envious Rat,\\nHow fine to be able to fly\\nTittered she, Leather wings\\nAre convenient things\\nBut nothing fo sit on have I.", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE TRYST\\nT3OTATO was deep in the dark under\\nground,\\nTomato, above in the light.\\nThe little Tomato was ruddy and round,\\nThe little Potato was white.\\nAnd redder and redder she rounded above,\\nAnd paler and paler he grew,\\nAnd neither suspected a mutual love\\nTill they met in a Brunswick stew.\\n59", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nETIQUETTE\\nT LONG, said* the new-gathered Lettuce,\\nTo meet our illustrious guest.\\nCried the Caster, Such haste\\nIs in very bad taste\\nSee first that you re properly dressedJ\\n60", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nA SUNSTROKE\\nnPHE Sun courted Water,\\nEarth s loveliest daughter,\\nAnd strove to abduct her in vain\\nFor, when he had caught her,\\nAnd to the clouds brought her.\\nHome she came running in rain.\\n6i", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nA SHUFFLE\\nnPHERE was a rumpus in the Pack,\\nWhereof the King and Queen and Jack\\nWere playing knavish parts.\\nOn Club and Spade was put the blame\\nBut these asserted twas a game\\nOf Diamonds and Hearts.\\n62", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nWASHINGTON S RUSE\\nHEN Georgie would not go to bed,\\nIf some one asked him why,\\nWhat is the use he gravely said,\\nYou know I cannot lie.\\n63", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nPANIC\\nTT struck the signs of the Zodiac,\\nAround the immovable Man\\nWho stands in front of the Almanack\\nTo show his interior plan.\\nThe Scorpion attacked the Bull,\\nThe Bull aroused the Lion\\nThe Crab by their tails\\nFlung the Fish in the Scales,\\nWhere they floundered as on a gridiron\\nThe Billy Goat went for the Gemini twins\\nThe Ram made a rush at Aquarius\\nAnd a narrow escape had the Virgo s shins\\nFrom the shaft of her beau Sagittarius.\\n64", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE END OF IT\\nA WHOLE-TAIL dog, and a half-tai!\\ndog,\\nAnd a dog without a tail.\\nWent all three out on an autumn day\\nTo follow a red-fox trail.\\nBut the dogs that carried their tails along\\nFell out, it is said, by the way\\nAnd the loss of a tail and a half at the end\\nOf the dogs put an end to the fray.\\nWhen each, as a morsel sweet, gulped down\\nWhat had late been a neighbor s pride,\\nYou Ve kept your tails, laughed the no-tail\\ndog,\\nBut you wear them now insider\\n65", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nA LITTLE CHILD S PRAYERS\\nI\\nTV /FAKE me, dear Lord, polite and kind\\nTo every one, I pray\\nAnd may I ask you how you find\\nYourself y dear Lord, to-day\\nII\\nLord, I have lost a toy\\nWith which I love to play\\nAnd as you were yourself a boy\\nOf just my age to-day,\\nO Son of Mary, would you mind\\nTo help me now my toy to find\\n66", "height": "2890", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "childversepoemsg01tabb_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Child Verse\\nTHE CHILD\\nAT BETHLEHEM\\nI\\nT ONG, long before the Babe could speak,\\nWhen he would kiss his mother s cheek\\nAnd to her bosom press,\\nThe brightest angels, standing near,\\nWould turn away to hide a tear,\\nFor they are motherless.\\nH\\nWhere were ye. 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