Fun and Frolic

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Fun And Frolic, by Various, Edited by E. T. Roe
E-text prepared by The Internet Archive Children's Library, Christine Gehring, Garrett Alley, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Grandmother sits in her easy chair
Softly humming some old-time air;
And as she sings, her needles keep pace
With the smiles that flit o'er her wrinkled face;
While the fire-light flickers, and fades away,
And comes again like the breaking day.
From morning till evening she knits and sings,
While ever the pendulum tireless swings
The moments around, with its tick and stroke,