The streamlet murmurs on its way;

Dew falls at set of sun;

The birds grow still at hush of day,

So sleep, my little one.

George Cooper

JULY NINTH

The child was happy;

Like a spirit of the air she moved,

Wayward, yet, by all who knew her,

For her tender heart beloved.

Wordsworth

JULY TENTH

My mother's voice, so forgotten yet so familiar,

so unutterably dear!

George Du Maurier

JULY ELEVENTH

But were another childhood-world my share,

I would be born a little sister there.

George Eliot

JULY TWELFTH

With what a look of proud command

Thou shakest, in thy little hand,

The coral rattle, with its silver bells,

Making a merry tune.

Longfellow

JULY THIRTEENTH