Songs for a Little House

by Christopher Morley

E-text prepared by Ron Swanson

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"He that high growth on cedars did bestow, Gave also lowly mushrumps leave to grow."

—R. Southwell, 1562-95

SONGS FOR A LITTLE HOUSE

BY

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1917,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO THE LITTLE HOUSE

Dear little house, dear shabby street, Dear books and beds and food to eat! How feeble words are to express The facets of your tenderness. How white the sun comes through the pane! In tinkling music drips the rain! How burning bright the furnace glows! What paths to shovel when it snows! O dearly loved Long Island trains! O well remembered joys and pains.... How near the housetops Beauty leans Along that little street in Queens! Let these poor rhymes abide for proof Joy dwells beneath a humble roof; Heaven is not built of country seats But little queer suburban streets!

Albany Avenue, Queens, Long Island, March, 1917