The book of joyous children . ELMEE BROWN An when his Pa he read out loudThe speech he maked, an feel so proudIts in the paper—Elmers MaShe ketched him—wite behind his Pa,—^Sere s the way yoic look ! Nen when his Ma she slip an takeHim in the other room an shakeHim good ! wy, he dont care—no-s^V /-He ist look up an laugh at her,—^Here s the way you look !. [14] NO BOY KNOWS There are many things that boys may know— Why this and that are thus and so,— Who made the world in the dark and lit The great sun up to lighten it: Boys know new things every day— When they study, or when they i)lay,— When
The book of joyous children . ELMEE BROWN An when his Pa he read out loudThe speech he maked, an feel so proudIts in the paper—Elmers MaShe ketched him—wite behind his Pa,—^Sere s the way yoic look ! Nen when his Ma she slip an takeHim in the other room an shakeHim good ! wy, he dont care—no-s^V /-He ist look up an laugh at her,—^Here s the way you look !. [14] NO BOY KNOWS There are many things that boys may know— Why this and that are thus and so,— Who made the world in the dark and lit The great sun up to lighten it: Boys know new things every day— When they study, or when they i)lay,— When they idle, or sow and reap— But no boy knows when he goes to sleep. Boys who listen—or should, at least,—May know that the round old earth rolls East ;—And know that the ice and the snow and the rain-Ever repeating their parts again—Are all just water the sunbeams firstSip from the earth in their endless pour again till the low streams leap.—But no boy knows when he goes to sleep. A boy may know what a long glad whileIt has been to him since the dawns first smile,[15] NO BOY KNOWS When forth he fared in the realm divineOf brook-laced woodland and spun-sunshine ;—He may know each call of his truant mates,And the paths they went,—and the pasture-gatesOf the cross-lots home through the dusk so deep.—But no boy kno
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