Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, Vawter, Will, 1871-1941 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 12
S You who to the rounded prime Of a life of toil and stress,Still have kept the morning-time Of glad youth in heart and spirit.So your laugh, as children hear it,Seems their own, no less,—Take this book of childish rhyme —The Book of Joyous Children. Their first happiness on earth Here is echoed —… … PAGE Proem viii The Book of Joyous Children ..... 3 An Impromptu Fairy-tale 8 Dream-march • • 1^ Elmer Brown 13 No Boy Knows 1^ When We First Played Show .... 19 A Diverted Tragedy 25 The K-ambo-tree 27 Find the Favorite 31 The Boy Patriot 35 Extremes 39 Intellectual Limitations 40 A Masque of the…
Children's poetry, American
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