A Little Book of Old Time Verse Part 14

--_Leigh Hunt_

Under the Wattle

"Why should not Wattle do For Mistletoe?

Ask'd one--they were but two-- Where wattles grow.

He was her lover, too, Who urged her so-- "Why should not Wattle do For Mistletoe?"

 

A rose-cheek rosier grew; Rose-lips breathed low-- "Since it is here--and You-- I hardly know Why Wattle should not do."

--_Douglas Brook Wheelton Sladen_

Eutopia

There is a garden where lilies And roses are side by side; And all day between them in silence The silken b.u.t.terflies glide.

I may not enter the garden, Tho' I know the road thereto; And morn by morn to the gateway I see the children go.

They bring back light on their faces; But they cannot bring back to me What the lilies say to the roses, Or the songs of the b.u.t.terflies be.

--_Francis Turner Palgrave_