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Title: Songs for a Little House

Author: Christopher Morley

Release Date: October 25, 2007 [eBook #23196]

Language: English

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SONGS FOR A LITTLE HOUSE

by

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

_"He that high growth on cedars did bestow,
Gave also lowly mushrumps leave to grow."_
--R. Southwell, 1562-95

New York
George H. Doran Company

Copyright, 1917,
by George H. Doran Company

Printed in the United States of America

TO THE LITTLE HOUSE

Dear little house, dear shabby street,
Dear books and beds and food to eat!
How feeble words are to express
The facets of your tenderness.

How white the sun comes through the pane!
In tinkling music drips the rain!
How burning bright the furnace glows!
What paths to shovel when it snows!

O dearly loved Long Island trains!
O well remembered joys and pains....
How near the housetops Beauty leans
Along that little street in Queens!

Let these poor rhymes abide for proof
Joy dwells beneath a humble roof;
Heaven is not built of country seats
But little queer suburban streets!

Albany Avenue, Queens, Long Island,
March, 1917

ONE MOMENT, PLEASE

At fifty cents per agate line
Kind editors will buy your verse;
They'll make you swear that you resign
All claims, for better or for worse.
The book, dramatic, photoplay,
And interplanetary rights
They seize; but do not feel dismay--
Their barks are fiercer than their bites!

I thank, for leave to print these rhymes,
And for unfailing courtesy,
_Everybody's_, _New York Times_,
The _Outlook_ and the _Century_;
The _Boston Transcript_, _L. H. J._,
The _Tribune_, _Mail_, and _Evening Post_,
The _Book News Monthly_, chastely gay--
But _Life_ and _Collier's_ I thank most.

The _Independent_ and _McClure's_
And _Argosy_ have borne my