The book of joyous children . hould, 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 pas
The book of joyous children . hould, 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 knows when he goes to sleep. I 0 I have followed me, oer and oer, From the flagrant drowse on the parlor-floor,To the pleading voice of the mother when 1 even doubted I heard it then— To the sense of a kiss, and a moonlit room,And dewy odors of locust-bloom—A sweet white cot—and a crickets cheep.—But no boy knows when he goes to [16] WHEN WE FIRST PLAYED SHOW Was nt it a good time^ Long Time Ago—Wlien we all were little tads And first played ^^Show !—When every newer day Wore as bright a glowAs the ones we laughed away— Long Time Ago! Calf was in the back-lot ; Clover in the red 5Bluebird in the pear-tree 5 Pigeons on the shed;Tom a-chargin twenty pins At the barn ; and DanSpraddled out just like ^^The ^Injarubber -Man ! Me and Bub and Rusty, Eck and Dunk and Sid,Tumblin on the sawdust Like the A-rabs did 5[19] WHEN WE FIRST PLAYED ^^SHOW Jamesy on the slack-rope In a wild retreat,Grappling back, to start again— When he chalked his feet!
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