"Rhymes of Childhood." Copyright, 1890-1898. Used by special permission of the publishers, The Bobbs-Merrill Company.

JUNE FIFTH

Since then God has willed that children should be

to us in the place of preceptors, we judge that we

owe to them the most diligent attention.

Comenius

JUNE SIXTH

He was so sweet, that oft his mother said,

O, child, how was it that I dwelt content

Before thou camest?

Jean Ingelow

JUNE SEVENTH

Thrice happy state again to be

The trusting infant on the knee!

Who lets his rosy fingers play

About his Mother's neck, and knows

Nothing beyond his Mother's eyes;

They comfort him by night and day,

They light his little life alway.

Tennyson

JUNE EIGHTH

I see in every child the possibility of a perfect man.

Froebel

JUNE NINTH