DOWN TO THE CANDY-MAN’S SHOP.
Here we go hippety-hop,
All for a stick of candy
Down to the candy-man’s shop—
Tell you what he’s a dandy.
All for a stick of candy
Hippety-hop we go.
Tell you what he’s a dandy
Givin’ us candy you know.
Hippety-hop we go,
Head-over-heels in our hurry.
Givin’ us candy you know
Sets us all in a flurry.
Head-over-heels in our hurry
Into the candy-man’s shop;
Sets us all in a flurry
Into the candy-man’s shop
Everybody just tumbles,
Goin’ it hippety-hop,
’Cause, you see, he never grumbles.
Everybody just tumbles
Makin’ the candy-man grin,
’Cause, you see, he never grumbles,
No matter how we come in.
Makin’ the candy-man grin,
Here we are crowdin’ and pushin’;
No matter how we come in
He knows the wush we’re a-wushin’.
Return.
L-l-lp! but that’s better’n ma’s jelly,
Down to the candy-man’s shop!
Hang to my hand now, Nellie,—
Here we go hippety-hop.
LIFE TO LOVE.
A Triolet.
It is life just to love
With a heart’s true devotion:
’Tis the great law Above.
It is life just to love,—
For the soul just to move
With a sweet, wild emotion.
It is life just to love
With a heart’s true devotion.
COME TO THE SHADOWS.
A Pantoum.
Come to the shadows of eve
Falling like mantles around us;
Come where the winds ever weave
Songs in the tree-webs around us.
Falling like mantles around us
Sweet chime the vespers of love;
Songs in the tree-webs around us
Waft from some Idean grove.
Sweet chime the vespers of love
Borne by the zephyrs of even;
Waft from some Idean grove
Lydian measures of heaven.
Borne by the zephyrs of even
Love in his quiver bears
Lydian measures of heaven,
Softest of musical airs.
Love in his quiver bears
Aye when the star-flowers blossom
Softest of musical airs,
Night folding Day to his bosom.
Aye when the star-flowers blossom
Love sings the sweetest of themes;
Night folding day to his bosom
Lies down to rapturous dreams.
Love sings the sweetest of themes
Bidding my heart that yet never
Lies down to rapturous dreams
Fold thine own close to mine ever.
Out ’mid the dew-loved flowers
Come where the winds ever weave
Love in the web of the hours,
Come to the shadows of eve.