Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: II. For Children | | Thread and Song | | John Williamson Palmer (1825–1906) |
| | | SWEETER and sweeter, | |
| Soft and low, | |
| Neat little nymph, | |
| Thy numbers flow, | |
| Urging thy thimble, | 5 |
| Thrift’s tidy symbol, | |
| Busy and nimble, | |
| To and fro; | |
| Prettily plying | |
| Thread and song, | 10 |
| Keeping them flying | |
| Late and long. | |
| Through the stitch linger, | |
| Kissing thy finger, | |
| Quick,—as it skips along. | 15 |
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| Many an echo, | |
| Soft and low, | |
| Follows thy flying | |
| Fancy so,— | |
| Melodies thrilling, | 20 |
| Tenderly filling | |
| Thee with their trilling, | |
| Come and go; | |
| Memory’s finger, | |
| Quick as thine, | 25 |
| Loving to linger | |
| On the line, | |
| Writes of another, | |
| Dearer than brother: | |
| Would that the name were mine! | 30 | | | |
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