Poems for Pale People / A Volume of Verse

by Edwin Carty Ranck

Their cakes and jam and pies and meal,

Nor catch them by their little tails,

And drown them in the water-pails.

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[ ¹ ] Written by the author's father, the late George W. Ranck. It first appeared in St. Nicholas and is reprinted by permission of The Century Company.

Things Worth While.

To sit and dream in a shady nook

While the phantom clouds roll by;

To con some long-remembered book

When the pulse of youth beats high.