Part 4

THE DUMB SOLDIER 87

AUTUMN FIRES 89

THE GARDENER 90

HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 92

ENVOYS

TO WILLIE AND HENRIETTA 97

TO MY MOTHER 98

TO AUNTIE 99

TO MINNIE 100

TO MY NAME-CHILD 103

TO ANY READER 105

ILLUSTRATIONS

FROM DRAWINGS IN COLOR BY JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH

FACING PAGE

BED IN SUMMER 4

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light.

FOREIGN LANDS 10

I held the trunk with both my hands And looked abroad on foreign lands.

THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE 18

I was the giant great and still That sits upon the pillow-hill,

MY SHADOW 20

He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!

FOREIGN CHILDREN 34

Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, Oh! don't you wish that you were me?

LOOKING-GLASS RIVER 42

We can see our coloured faces Floating on the shaken pool

THE HAYLOFT 48

Oh, what a joy to clamber there, Oh, what a place for play, With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air, The happy hills of hay!