me went the little woman all in the dark,
got the little dog, and he began to bark ;
began to bark, so she began to cry,
uk-a-mercy on me, this is none of I!'

If all the world was apple-pie,
And all the sea was ink,

And all the trees were bread and cheese,
What should we have to drink?

5

There was a little boy and a little girl

Lived in an alley;

Says the little boy to the little girl,

'Shall I, oh! shall I ?'

Says the little girl to the little boy, 'What shall we do?'

Says the little boy to the little girl, 'I will kiss you!'

CLXXI

E AGE OF CHILDREN HAPPIEST if they had still wit to understand it

my quiet bed in study as I were

ithin my troubled head a heap of thoughts appear,

ery thought did show so lively in mine eyes, ow I sigh'd, and then I smiled, as cause of thoughts did rise

I saw the little boy, in thought how oft that he Did wish of God, to 'scape the rod, a tall young man to be,

The young man eke that feels his bones with pain opprest,

How he would be a rich old man, to live and lie at

rest!

The rich old man that sees his end draw on so sore, How would he be a boy again to live so much the

more.

Whereat full oft I smiled, to see how all those three, From boy to man, from man to boy, would chop and change degree.

Earl of Surrey

CLXXII

THE NOBLE NATURE

It is not growing like a tree

In bulk, doth make man better be;

Or standing long an oak three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere ;
A lily of a day

Is fairer far in May,

Although it fall and die that night—
It was the plant and flower of Light.
In small proportions we just beauty see;
And in short measures life may perfect be.

B. Jonson

CLXXIII

THE RAINBOW

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky;

So was it when my life began ;
So is it now I am a man ;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!

The child is father of the man ;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety,
W. Wordsworth

INDEX OF WRITERS

INGHAM, W. XLIV, LVII, LXXXI GAY, J. LXXXV, CVII, CXXXV