"Rhymes of Childhood." Copyright, 1890-1898. Used by permission of the publishers, The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
JUNE
JUNE FIRST
Would ye learn the way to Laughtertown,
Oh, ye who have lost the way?
Would ye have young hearts, though your hair be gray?
Go learn from a little child each day;
Go serve his wants and play his play,
And catch the lilt of his laughter gay,
And follow his dancing feet as they stray,
For he knows the road to Laughtertown
Oh, ye who have lost the way!
Katherine D. Blake
JUNE SECOND
What school of learning or of moral endeavor
depends on its teacher more than the home upon the
mother.
Donald G. Mitchell
JUNE THIRD
What price could pay with earth's whole weight of gold,
One least flushed roseleaf's fold
Of all this dimpling store of smiles that shine
From each warm curve and line?
Swinburne
JUNE FOURTH
Sometimes when I bin bad
An' Pa "correcks" me, nen
An' Uncle Sidney he comes here
I'm allus good again;
Cause Uncle Sidney says,
An' takes me up an' smiles,
The goodest mens they is ain't good
As baddest little childs.
James Whitcomb Riley