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The Dream Of A Boy Who Lived At Nine-Elms

Nine grenadiers, with bayonets in their guns;

Nine bakers' baskets, with hot cross buns;

Nine brown elephants standing in a row;

Nine new velocipedes, good ones to go;

Nine knickerbocker suits, with buttons all complete;

Nine pairs of skates with straps for the feet;

Nine clever conjurors eating hot coals;

Nine sturdy mountaineers leaping on their poles;

William Brighty Rands

The Dream Of A Girl Who Lived At Seven-Oaks

Seven sweet singing birds up in a tree;

Seven swift sailing ships white upon the sea;

Seven bright weather-cocks shining in the sun;

Seven slim race-horses ready for a run;

Seven gold butterflies, flitting overhead;

Seven red roses blowing in a garden bed;

Seven white lilies, with honey bees inside them;

Seven round rainbows with clouds to divide them;

William Brighty Rands

Little Ditties I

Winifred Waters sat and sighed

Under a weeping willow;

When she went to bed she cried,

Wetting all the pillow;

Kept on crying night and day,

Till her friends lost patience;

"What shall we do to stop her, pray?"

So said her relations.

William Brighty Rands

The Thought

Into the skies, one summer's day,

I sent a little Thought away;

Up to where, in the blue round,

The sun sat shining without sound.

Then my Thought came back to me.—

Little Thought, what did you see

In the regions whence you come?

William Brighty Rands

The First Tooth

There once was a wood, and a very thick wood,

So thick that to walk was as much as you could;

But a sunbeam got in, and the trees understood.

I went to this wood, at the end of the snows,

And as I was walking I saw a primrose;

Only one! Shall I show you the place where it grows?

There once was a house, and a very dark house,

As dark, I believe, as the hole of a mouse,

William Brighty Rands

Cuckoo In The Pear-Tree

The Cuckoo sat in the old pear-tree,

Cuckoo!

Raining or snowing, nought cared he.

Cuckoo!

Cuckoo, cuckoo, nought cared he.

The Cuckoo flew over a housetop high.

Cuckoo!

"Dear, are you at home, for here am I?

William Brighty Rands

Polly

Brown eyes,

Straight nose;

Dirt pies,

Rumpled clothes;

Torn books,

Spoilt toys;

Arch looks,

Unlike a boy's;

William Brighty Rands

Dressing The Doll

THIS is the way we dress the Doll:—

You may make her a shepherdess, the Doll,

If you give her a crook with a pastoral hook,

But this is the way we dress the Doll.

Chorus

Bless the Doll, you may press the Doll,

William Brighty Rands

The Cat Of Cats

I am the cat of cats. I am

The everlasting cat!

Cunning, and old, and sleek as jam,

The everlasting cat!

I hunt vermin in the night-

The everlasting cat!

For I see best without the light-

The everlasting cat!

William Brighty Rands

I Saw A New World

I SAW a new world in my dream,

Where all the folks alike did seem:

There was no Child, there was no Mother,

There was no Change, there was no Other.

For everything was Same, the Same;

There was no praise, there was no blame;

There was neither Need nor Help for it;

William Brighty Rands

The Flowers

When Love arose in heart and deed

To wake the world to greater joy,

'What can she give me now?' said Greed,

Who thought to win some costly toy.

He rose, he ran, he stoop'd, he clutch'd;

And soon the Flowers, that Love let fall,

In Greed's hot grasp were fray'd and smutch'd,

William Brighty Rands

Topsy-Turvy World

IF the butterfly courted the bee,

And the owl the porcupine;

If churches were built in the sea,

And three times one was nine;

If the pony rode his master,

If the buttercups ate the cows,

If the cats had the dire disaster

To be worried, sir, by the mouse;

William Brighty Rands