Child life: a collection of poems . BOSTON AND NEW YORKHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Entered according to Act of Congress. In the year 1871, by JAMES R. OSGOOD & COMPANY. la the Office of the Librarian o Congress, at Washington, D, C. V THE LITTLE PEOPLE. A DREARY place would be this earth,Were there no little people in it ; The song of life would lose its mirth,Were there no children to liegin it ; No little forms, like buds to grow. And make the admiring ireart surrender ; No little hands on bieast and brow. To keei) the thrilling love-chords tender. The sterner souls would grow more stern,Unfeel
Child life: a collection of poems . BOSTON AND NEW YORKHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Entered according to Act of Congress. In the year 1871, by JAMES R. OSGOOD & COMPANY. la the Office of the Librarian o Congress, at Washington, D, C. V THE LITTLE PEOPLE. A DREARY place would be this earth,Were there no little people in it ; The song of life would lose its mirth,Were there no children to liegin it ; No little forms, like buds to grow. And make the admiring ireart surrender ; No little hands on bieast and brow. To keei) the thrilling love-chords tender. The sterner souls would grow more stern,Unfeeling nature more inhuman. And man to stoic coldness turn. And woman would be less than woman. Lifes song, indeed, would lose its there no babies to begin it ; A doleful place this world would be,Wero there no little people in PREFACE. Having had occasion, some time since, to look over several volumes olselected verse intended for juvenile readers, and noticing in nearly all oftliem much that seemed lacking in literary merit or adaptation, it occur-red to the compiler of this volume that, taking advantage of the merits aswell as deficiencies of existing publications in this department, a selec-tion might be made combining simplicity with a certain degree of literaryexcellence, without on the one hand descending to silliness, or, on theother rising above the average comprehension of childhood. How far the present volume has made this thought a reality it is not forhim to decide. He can only say that it is the result of a patient examina-tion of the accessible juvenile literature of our own and other English tongue is peculiarly rich in the lore of home and fireside;and the editor has availed himself of selections from the folk-songs andballads of continental Europe. Where a doubt existed in reg
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