The Posy Ring - Large Print Edition Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II THE CHILD S WORLD $ r r Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World, With the wonderful water round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast... more », World, you are beautifully drest. William Brighty Rands. THE CHILD'S WORLD r r r The Wonderful World Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World, With the wonderful water round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast, World, you are beautifully drest. The wonderful air is over me, And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree— It walks on the water, and whirls the mills, And talks to itself on the top of the hills. You friendly Earth, how far do you go, With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles ? Ah! you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all; And yet, when I said my prayers to-day, My mother kissed me, and said, quite gay, " If the wonderful World is great to you, And great to father and mother, too, You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot ! You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!' William Brighty Rands. A Day I'll tell you how the sun rose, A ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, " That must have been the sun ! " But how he set, I know not. There seemed a purple stile Which little yellow boys and girls Were climbing all the while Till when they reached the other side, A dominie in gray Put gently up the evening bars, And led the flock away. Emily Dickinson. Good-Morning The year's at the Spring, And day's at the morn ; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's de...« less