English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 575. Letty’s Globe |
| | | Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) |
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| WHEN Letty had scarce pass’d her third glad year, | |
| And her young artless words began to flow, | |
| One day we gave the child a colour’d 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 peep’d | |
| Between her baby fingers; her soft hand | |
| Was welcome at all frontiers. How she leap’d, | |
| And laugh’d and prattled in her world-wide bliss; | |
| But when we turn’d 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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