A Child-World

"--O! yer so _innocent!_ hangin' yer head!-- (Drat ye! you'd _better_ git under the bed!) --Listen at that!-- He's tackled the cat!-- Hah, there! you little rip! come out o' tha...

"And now, behold ye all!--as Tubb and me Wuz 'bout to raise up,--right in front we see A feller slippin' out the arber, square Smack under that-air little winder where The _othe...

_The Child-World--long and long since lost to view-- A Fairy Paradise!-- How always fair it was and fresh and new-- How every affluent hour heaped heart and eyes With treasures...

Ah, could you see them _all_, at lull of noon!-- A sort of _boisterous_ lull, with clink of spoon And clatter of deflecting knife, and plate Dropped saggingly, with its all-boun...

"And how comes it," said Some one to Mr. Hammond, "that, instead Of the inventor's life you did not choose The _artist's?_--since the world can better lose A cutting-box or reap...

--So prevail The faithful!--So had the Lord upheld His servants of both deed and prayer,-- HIS the glory unparalleled-- _Theirs_ the reward,--their every son Free, at last, as t...