Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading
Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading
Selected from English and American Literature
Book Excerpt
ou have lit,
And tell me why you sing."
And tell me why you sing."
Up, and in the air again,
Flap, flap, flap!
And now she stops, and now she drops
Into the rose's lap.
"Come, just a minute come,
From your rose so red."
Hum, hum, hum, hum--
That was all she said.
"Busy-body, busy-body,
Always light and gay,
It seems to me, for all I see,
Your work is only play."
And now the day is sinking to
The goldenest of eves,
And she doth creep for quiet sleep
Among the lily-leaves.
"Come, just a moment come,
From your snowy bed."
Hum, hum, hum, hum--
That was all she said.
But, the while I mused, I learned
The secret of her way:
Do my part with cheerful heart,
And turn my work to play.
A cat came fiddling out of a barn,
With a pair of bag-pipes under her arm;
She could sing nothing but fiddle-de-dee,
The mouse has married the bumble-bee;
Pipe, cat,--dance, mouse,--
We'll have a wedding
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