OUT OF DOORS. THE CHILD'S WORLD. "GREAT, wide, beautiful, wonderful World, "The wonderful air is over me, "You, friendly Earth! how far do you go With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs, and isles And people upon you for thousands of miles? 'Ah, you are so great, and I am so small, I tremble to think of you, World, at all D ; 'You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot !"" -"Lilliput Lectures." THE COUNTRY CHILD. WITH mingled trembling and delight, And slowly falling feet, A little country maiden now Is passing down the street: The sunlight warm has kissed her brow, Comes with her to the town; We almost guess the woodland place Where she has dwelt, from her sweet face! We almost read her inner thoughts, As Nature's child, with bounding heart, The merchant, in his store-house door, The laborer pauses in his work, Where'er she goes, she wakens dreams She seems to bring the country here, She passes from our view, We watch her sadly, as we might Some pleasant landscape fade from sight. Ah, well! we would not keep her here, So fair a flower should open with Mid primrose stars, as sweet and wild, As she will be, dear woodland child! -Marian Douglas. THE BAREFOOT BOY. BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace: From my heart I give thee joy! I was once a barefoot boy. Prince thou art, the grown-up man Only is republican. Let the million-dollared ride! Barefoot, trudging at his side, O, for boyhood's painless play; Of the wild bee's morning chase, Where the whitest lilies blow; |