Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (18331908). A Victorian Anthology, 18371895. 1895. |
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Lettys Globe |
| Charles Tennyson Turner (180879) |
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WHEN Letty had scarce passd her third glad year, | |
And her young, artless words began to flow, | |
One day we gave the child a colord 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 peepd | |
Between her baby fingers; her soft hand | |
Was welcome at all frontiers. How she leapd, | |
And laughd and prattled in her worldwide bliss; | |
But when we turnd her sweet unlearned eye | 10 |
On our own isle, she raisd a joyous cry, | |
Oh! yes, I see it, Lettys home is there! | |
And, while she hid all England with a kiss, | |
Bright over Europe fell her golden hair! | |
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