Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: I. About Children | | Letty’s Globe | | Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) |
| | | WHEN Letty had scarce passed her third glad year, | |
| And her young, artless words began to flow, | |
| One day we gave the child a colored sphere | |
| Of the wide earth, that she might mark and know, | |
| By tint and outline, all its sea and land. | 5 |
| She patted all the world; old empires peeped | |
| Between her baby fingers; her soft hand | |
| Was welcome at all frontiers. How she leaped, | |
| And laughed and prattled in her world-wide bliss; | |
| But when we turned her sweet unlearnèd eye | 10 |
| On our own isle, she raised a joyous cry, | |
| “Oh! yes, I see it, Letty’s home is there!” | |
| And, while she hid all England with a kiss, | |
| Bright over Europe fell her golden hair! | | | | |
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