Fairings

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Title:     Fairings
Author: Laurence Alma-Tadema [More Titles by Alma-Tadema]

O, Father has donned his suit of brown
And saddled the gelding gray,
And he's ridden off to London town
Where the streets are fine and gay.

And Mother has asked for a yard of lace,
And Kate for a kerchief new,
And Moll for a mirror to look at her face,
And Bessie for beads, all blue;

And Dick has been promised a kite so tall,
And Jamie a leathern whip,
And Baby shall play with a painted ball,
And O! I have asked for a ship!--

But our eldest sister stood apart,
And I think I heard her say:
'O bring me back a little white heart
Like the one I lost in May....'

[The end]
Laurence Alma-Tadema's poem: Fairings

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