Child's Calendar Beautiful

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...sky, From the night bird's lay through the starry time, In the groves of the soft Hesperian clime, To the swan's wild note, by the iceland lakes, Where the dark fir branch into verdure breaks. From the streams and founts I have loosed the chain, They are sweeping on to the silvery main, They are flashing down from the mountain brows, They are flinging spray o'er the forest boughs, They are bursting fresh from their sparry caves, And the earth resounds with the joy of waves! Come forth, O ye children of gladness, come! Where the violets lie may be now your home. Ye of the rose lip and dew-bright eye, And the bounding footstep, to meet me, fly! With the lyre and the wreath and the joyous lay, Come forth to the sunshine, I may not stay.--Felicia Hentans. THE SOUTH WIND AND THE SUN V_y How each loved the other one--Full of Fancy--full of folly--Full of jollity and fun! How they romped and ran about, Like two boys when school is out, With glowing face, and lisping lip, Low laugh, and lifted shout! And the South Wind--he was dressed With a ribbon round his breast That floated, flapped and fluttered In a riotous unrest, And a drapery of mist, From the shoulder and the wrist Flowing backward with the motion Of the waving hand he kissed. And the Sun had on a crown Wrought of gilded thistle-down, And a scarf of velvet vapor, And a raveled-rainbow gown; And his tinsel-tangled hair, Tossed and lost upon the air, Was glossier and flossier Than any anywhere. APRIL FIFTH TEAR APRIL And the South Wind's eyes were two Little dancing drops of dew, As he puffed his cheeks, and pursed his lips, And blew, and blew, and blew! And the Sun's--like diamond-stone, Brighter yet than ever known, As he knit his brows, and held his breath, And shone, and shone, and shone! And this pair ...