CHILDREN’S VERSES

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20422, 12 February 1938, Page 19 (Supplement)

CHILDREN’S VERSES

WOODPECKER Last night I heard him in the woods When everything was still, Tappity-tap on the dreaming trees Under the fairy hill. I wonder if he lost his way, As I did long before, \nd so had to tap and tap Till he found the fairy’s door. GOBBLE, GOBBLE They walk with a wobble All through the long grass; The gander goes ** Gobble l I’ll not let you pass. As sure, little master. As eggs are eggs I’ll take a peck At your bonny fat lags I” THE SAMPLER Deborah Green, at the age eleven, Finished this sampler in eighteen seven. Up at the top is an elegant frieze Or prim red flowers and Christmas trees. Down below are a painted house. Goose and turkey and cat and mouse A prancing stag and a dog or two. And all the alphabet, done in blue. These are a frame for a little rhyme Bidding her toil nor waste her time. When life's as short as a fading da; (Worked so nicely in black and grey Out of doors are the whirring wings Heal live turkeys and dogs and things Lambs that gambol and clouds tha pass; Wind and sun in the September grass Quite the best sampler I've seen, but oh! I’m sorry for Deborah Green —Sent by So and So.