Our Children's Songs With Illustrations



SONGS FOE CHILDHOOD.		67



VAGRANT PANSIES. Nellie M. Hutchinson. They are all in the lily-bed, cuddled close together— Purples, Yellow-cap, and little Baby-blue : How they ever got there you must ask the April _l weather, The morning and the evening winds, the sunshine and the dew. Why they should go visiting the tall and haughty lilies Is very odd, and none of them will condescend to say : They might have made a call upon the jolly Daffodillies ; They might have come to my house any pleasant day.	They don't have a good time, I thiuk ; their little faces Look so very solemn underneath each velvet hood : I wonder, don't they feel, among the garden's airs and graces, That shy Cousin Violet is happier in the wood ? Ah, my pretty Pansies, it's no use to go a-seeking ; There isn't any good time waiting anywhere : I fancy even Violet is troubled—mildly speaking—- When somebody plucks her, rinding her so fair. There's nothiug left for you, my pets, but just to do your duty, Bloom, and make the world sweet — that's the best for you ; There isn't much that's lovelier than your bashful beauty, My Purples, my Yellow-cap, and my Baby-blue!