He had found her at last, his waiting bride,
And the people buried them side by side.
Rose Hartwick Thorpe.
TOMMY’S PRAYER.
This beautiful poem is full of the pathos and suffering of poverty. It should be delivered with expression and feeling. Although lengthy the interest is sustained throughout.
In a dark and dismal alley where the sunshine never came,
Dwelt a little lad named Tommy, sickly, delicate and lame;
He had never yet been healthy, but had lain since he was born,