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CheerfulElizabeth Madox Roberts

Mr. Pennybaker at Church

He holds his songbook very low, And then he stretches down his face, And Mother said, "You mustn't watch, He's only singing bass." He makes his voice go walking down, Or else he hurries twice as fast As all the rest, but even then He finishes the song the last. And when I see him singing there, I wonder if he knows it all About Leviticus and Shem And Deuteronomy and Saul.
CheerfulElizabeth Madox Roberts

Miss Kate-Marie

And it was Sunday everywhere, And Father pinned a rose on me And said he guessed he'd better take Me down to see Miss Kate-Marie. And when I went it all turned out To be a Sunday school, and there Miss Kate-Marie was very good And let me stand beside her chair. Her hat was made of yellow lace; Her dress was very soft and thin, And when she talked her little tongue Was always wriggling out and in. I liked to smell my pretty rose; I liked to feel her silky dress. She held a very little book And asked the things for us to guess.
ContemplativeElizabeth Madox Roberts

The Worm

Dickie found a broken spade And said he'd dig himself a well; And then Charles took a piece of tin, And I was digging with a shell. Then Will said he would dig one too. We shaped them out and made them wide, And I dug up a piece of clod That had a little worm inside. We watched him pucker up himself And stretch himself to walk away. He tried to go inside the dirt, But Dickie made him wait and stay. His shining skin was soft and wet. I poked him once to see him squirm. And then Will said, "I wonder if He knows that he's a worm."
CheerfulElizabeth Madox Roberts

The Circus

Friday came and the circus was there, And Mother said that the twins and I And Charles and Clarence and all of us Could go out and see the parade go by. And there were wagons with pictures on, And you never could guess what they had inside, Nobody could guess, for the doors were shut, And there was a dog that a monkey could ride. A man on the top of a sort of cart Was clapping his hands and making a talk. And the elephant came--he can step pretty far-- It made us laugh to see him walk. Three beautiful ladies came riding by, And each one had on a golden dress, And each one had a golden whip. They were queens of Sheba, I guess.
CheerfulElizabeth Madox Roberts

The Cornfield

I went across the pasture lot When not a one was watching me. Away beyond the cattle barns I climbed a little crooked tree. And I could look down on the field And see the corn and how it grows Across the world and up and down In very straight and even rows. And far away and far away-- I wonder if the farmer man Knows all about the corn and how It comes together like a fan.

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