(Girls and boys she means of course) “long ago.”

Brave but modest, grandly shy;

She would like to have us try

Just to feel like those who met

In the graceful minuet—long ago.

—Mary Mapes Dodge.

WYNKEN, BLYNKEN AND NOD.[2]

Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night

Sailed off in a wooden shoe,

Sailed on a river of crystal light