I Know That A Sweet Child Is

Not Childhood Alone, But The Young Man Till Thirty, Never Feels Practically That He Is Mortal.

A Persian's Heaven Is Eas'ly Made: 't Is But Black Eyes And Lemonade.

It Is Rather An Unpleasant Fact, That The Ugliest And Awkwardest Of Brute Animals Have The Greatest Resemblance To Man: The Monkey And The Bear. The Monkey Is Ugly Too (so We Think) Because He Is Like Man--as The Bear Is Awkward, Because The Cumbrous Action Of Its Huge Paws Seems To Be A Preposterous Imitation Of The Motions Of Human Hands. Men And Apes Are The Only Animals That Have Hairs On The Under Eye-lid. Let Kings Know This.

I Have Had Playmates, I Have Had Companions; In My Days Of Childhood, In My Joyful School Days - All, All Are Gone, The Old Familiar Faces.

No Eye To Watch, And No Tongue To Wound Us, All Earth Forgot, And All Heaven Around Us.