The barefoot time

Barefoot Time ADELBERT FARRINGTON CALDWELL
Adelbert Farrington Caldwell
Boston: Richard G. Badger The Gorham Press 1903
Copyright 1903 by Adelbert F. Caldwell All Rights Reserved
Printed at The Gorham Press Boston
To My Mother Whose sharing my pleasures then, makes cherished the memories of childhood now.
Many of the selections of this little volume of child’s verse have appeared from time to time in “The Youth’s Companion”, “Ladies’ World”, “Farm and Home”, “Outlook”, “Sunday School Times”, “Forward”, and “The Independent”; and if, in bringing them together, occasionally here and there verses a trifle beyond “the barefoot time” have crept in, perhaps they were not unintentionally admitted for “children of a larger growth”.
A. F. C.

Oh, the golden age of the barefoot time,
While life was a fairy tale sung in rhyme,
When phantoms grim of a future day