Ah! you are so great, and I am so small,
I tremble to think of you, World, at all; And yet, when I said my prayers to-day, A whisper inside me seemed to say, "You are more than the earth, though you are such a dot; You can love and think, and the earth cannot!" |
Great wide, beautiful, wonderful world, With the wonderful waters round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast, World, you are beautifully drest |
Never do to-day what you can
Put off till to-morrow. |
Never do to-day what you can Put off till to-morrow. |
There was a man so very tall, That when you spoke you had to ball Through both your hands, put like a cup, His head was such a long way up... He grew and grew - you could not see Without a telescope his knee; He grew till he was over-grown, And seen by oversight alone! |
With the peddler-man I should like to roam,
And write a book when I came home; All the people would read my book, Just like the Travels of Captain Cook! |