SOMEWHERE OR OTHER. OMEWHERE or other there must surely be SOMEWHERE or other there most hearty Somewhere or other, may be near or far; Somewhere or other, may be far or near; 10* A CHILL. HAT can lambkins do WHAT All the keen night through? Nestle by their woolly mother, What can nestlings do In the nightly dew? Sleep beneath their mother's wing Till day breaks anew. If in field or tree There might only be Such a warm soft sleeping-place Found for me! CHILD'S TALK IN APRIL. I WISH you were a pleasant wren, Then you should see the nest I'd build, We'd have our change of hope and fear, I'd perch by you to chirp and cheer, We'd be so happy by the day, So safe and happy through the night, We both should feel, and I should say, It's all one season of delight, And we 'll make merry whilst we may. Perhaps some day there 'd be an egg Like chanticleer I'd almost crow To let our little neighbors know. Next you should sit and I would sing I'd sit; and you should spread your wing Fancy the breaking of the shell, The chirp, the chickens wet and bare, Fancy the embryo coats of down, So would it last an April through Then should we part and live as twain, GONE FOREVER. HAPPY rose-bud blooming Nay, thou art too presuming; O happy skylark springing Where no sweet notes are ringing. And through life's shine and shower We shall have joy and pain; But in the summer bower, And at the morning hour, We still shall look in vain For the same bird and flower. |