THE MIGHTY MAGIC-(Continued) The ball shows a startling feature, In gold and purple behold her, Then up in the light where fun gleams, She will travel the paths of sunbeams -JOSEPHINE Dodge. (Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge.) 1 NURSERYLAND THERE'S a nursery world at the top of the stair, But it's sleepy and solemn and still up there, And things are just as a plump little hand Waiting the rule of a queen that's fair. A doll with a scalp half-off her head, And a broken-back soldier who must be dead; A fluffy young maiden all dressed in white. Is lying out flat, with eyes shut tight, While a fort of blocks and sentinel stand For a long, long while, When the queen's away, it is not the style. NURSERYLAND-(Continued) A little low table is set for tea, With covers for "mother and daddy and me;" But there's always tea in Nurseryland. It is tea for me, And it's tea for thee, But the queen takes mostly sugar, you see. But oh, what a topsy world is there; And some haven't even their night-clothes on; The frail and the fit, The dented and split, There's nothing so bad but there's good in it. NURSERYLAND-(Continued) And all are gentle, and all are kind, They are well behaved and they always mind, The horse on rollers, the elephant fat, The cow on wheels, and the sawdust cat, And the camel who walks o'er the red-rug sand Of the make-believe desert of Nurseryland. Both cattle and man Enjoy the plan Of living together as best they can. Yet the little toy world is mute and still, Be true to its trust, Regardless of temper or time or dust. NURSERYLAND-(Continued) But soon the curly-crowned head will come And the bent will break, And the world will dine on candy and cake. Then "me and mother and daddy and me" The cow will moo, the piano will play, And the dollies will change their clothes all day; In the hours with me, In the days to be, In the years to come which I may not see. -REV. KARL Reiland. |