“Poor little Joe!” she loved him so.
“Poor little Joe!” was all he said,
When it was told him she was dead;
But everywhere the warm tears start
Responsive to his breaking heart;—
“Poor little Joe!” we loved her so.
[A]. Josephine Kipling—eldest child of Rudyard Kipling.
DARK, AND DAYS.
The same old problems vex mankind;
In meager beams the light is given;