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Title: Second Book of Verse

Author: Eugene Field

Release Date: April 3, 2010 [EBook #31874]

Language: English

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Second

BOOK OF VERSE

BY EUGENE FIELD

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Second

BOOK OF VERSE

BY

EUGENE FIELD

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1896

_Copyright, 1892_,

BY JULIA SUTHERLAND FIELD.

_A little bit of a woman came
Athwart my path one day;
So tiny was she that she seemed to be
A pixy strayed from the misty sea,
Or a wandering greenwood fay._

_"Oho, you little elf!" I cried,
"And what are you doing here?
So tiny as you will never do
For the brutal rush and hullaballoo
Of this practical world, I fear."_

_"Voice have I, good sir," said she.--
"'Tis soft as an Angel's sigh,
But to fancy a word of yours were heard
In all the din of this world's absurd!"
Smiling, I made reply._

_"Hands have I, good sir" she quoth.--
"Marry, and that have you!
But a