| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Letty’s Globe |
| | | Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–79) |
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| WHEN Letty had scarce pass’d her third glad year, | |
| And her young, artless words began to flow, | |
| One day we gave the child a color’d sphere | |
| Of the wide earth, that she might mark and know, | |
| By tint and outline, all its sea and land. | 5 |
| She patted all the world; old empires peep’d | |
| Between her baby fingers; her soft hand | |
| Was welcome at all frontiers. How she leap’d, | |
| And laugh’d and prattled in her worldwide bliss; | |
| But when we turn’d her sweet unlearned eye | 10 |
| On our own isle, she rais’d a joyous cry, | |
| “Oh! yes, I see it, Letty’s home is there!” | |
| And, while she hid all England with a kiss, | |
| Bright over Europe fell her golden hair! | |
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