PART II.
CHILDREN'S LEAFLETS.
Designed to Open the Eyes of the Young.
Most of these leaflets were published as companions to the Teachers' Leaflets and Lessons,—the teachers' lessons written in one vein and the children's in another. Even though the subject-matter may be largely duplicated in the two, it seems worth while to keep these separate as showing a simple method of presentation and as suggesting a means of procedure to those who would reach small children.
[THE CHILD'S REALM.]
By L. H. BAILEY.
A little child sat on the sloping strand Gazing at the flow and the free, Thrusting its feet in the golden sand, Playing with the waves and the sea.
I snatch'd a weed that toss'd on the flood And parted its tangled skeins; I trac'd the course of the fertile blood That lay in its meshèd veins;
I told how the stars are garner'd in space, How the moon on its course is roll'd, How the earth is hung in its ceaseless place As it whirls in its orbit old:—
The little child paus'd with its busy hands And gaz'd for a moment at me, Then dropp'd again to its golden sands And play'd with the waves and the sea.