Contents

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My Baby's Feet[1]
Two Little Seeds[3]
Edith[6]
The Theft[8]
Who's Afraid[12]
Lullaby[14]
Two of Them[15]
In the Meadow[16]
Beatrice[19]
My Boy[21]
The Fairy's Motto[23]
A Reverie[26]
My Choice[28]
Elliott[30]
Three Little Kittens[31]
What is the Use of Trying[33]
Only Five[35]
Unreconciled[37]
The Naughty Dolly[40]
Mabel's Lesson[41]
Baby Kathleen[43]
Two Boys[45]

"As I came o'er the distant hills
I heard a nestling sing:
'Oh, pleasant are the primrose buds
In the perfumed breath of spring!
And pleasant are the mossy banks
Beneath the birchen bowers—
But a home wherein no children play
Is a garden shorn of flowers.'"