<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416569" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Babyhood</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heigh-ho! Babyhood! Tell me where you linger:<br>Let's toddle home again, for we have gone astray;<br>Take this eager hand of mine and lead me by the finger<br>Back to the Lotus lands of the far-away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Turn back the leaves of life; don't read the story,--<br>Let's find the _pictures_, and fancy all the rest:--<br>We can fill the written pages with a brighter glory<br>Than Old Time, the story-teller, at his very best!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Turn to the brook, where the honeysuckle, tipping<br>O'er its vase of perfume spills it on the breeze,<br>And the bee and humming-bird in ecstacy are sipping<br>From the fairy flagons of the blooming locust trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Turn to the lane, where we used to 'teeter-totter,'<br>Printing little foot-palms in the mellow mold,<br>Laughing at the lazy cattle wading in the water<br>Where the ripples dimple round the buttercups of gold:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where the dusky turtle lies basking on the gravel<br>Of the sunny sandbar in the middle-tide,<br>And the ghostly dragonfly pauses in his travel<br>To rest like a blossom where the water-lily died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heigh-ho! Babyhood! Tell me where you linger:<br>Let's toddle home again, for we have gone astray;<br>Take this eager hand of mine and lead me by the finger<br>Back to the Lotus lands of the far-away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416569" data-title="Babyhood de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Heigh-ho! Babyhood! Tell me where you linger: Let's toddle home again, for we have gone astray; Take this eager hand of mine and lead me by the finger Back to the Lotus lands of the far-away. Turn back the leaves of life; don't read the story,-- ..."></div> </div> </div>

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