Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 22
d.Every morn shall lead thee throughFresh baptisms of the dew;Every evening from they feetShall the cool wind kiss the heat;All too soon these feet must hideIn the prison cells of pride.Lose the freedom of the sod,Like a colts for work be shod,Made to tread the mills of toilUp and down in ceaseless… … RAIN ON THE ROOF^ WHEN the humid showers hoverOver all the starry spheresAnd the melancholy darkness Gently weeps in rainy tears,What a bliss to press the pillow Of a cottage-chamber bed,And to listen to the patter Of the soft rain overhead! 1. Coat€s Kinney, born in New York in 1826, gives this…
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