<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416769" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Book Of Joyous Children</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bound and bordered in leaf-green,<br>Edged with trellised buds and flowers<br>And glad Summer-gold, with clean<br>White and purple morning-glories<br>Such as suit the songs and stories<br>Of this book of ours,<br>Unrevised in text or scene,--<br>The Book of Joyous Children.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wild and breathless in their glee--<br>Lawless rangers of all ways<br>Winding through lush greenery<br>Of Elysian vales--the viny,<br>Bowery groves of shady, shiny<br>Haunts of childish days.<br>Spread and read again with me<br>The Book of Joyous Children.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a whir of wings, and what<br>Sudden drench of dews upon<br>The young brows, wreathed, all unsought,<br>With the apple-blossom garlands<br>Of the poets of those far lands<br>Whence all dreams are drawn<br>Set herein and soiling not<br>The Book of Joyous Children.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In their blithe companionship<br>Taste again, these pages through,<br>The hot honey on your lip<br>Of the sun-smit wild strawberry,<br>Or the chill tart of the cherry;<br>Kneel, all glowing, to<br>The cool spring, and with it sip<br>The Book of Joyous Children.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As their laughter needs no rule,<br>So accept their language, pray.--<br>Touch it not with any tool:<br>Surely we may understand it,--<br>As the heart has parsed or scanned it<br>Is a worthy way,<br>Though found not in any School<br>The Book of Joyous Children.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be a truant--know no place<br>Of prison under heaven's rim!<br>Front the Father's smiling face--<br>Smiling, that _you_ smile the brighter<br>For the heavy hearts made lighter,<br>Since you smile with Him.<br>Take--and thank Him for His grace--<br>The Book of Joyous Children.</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=416769" data-title="The Book Of Joyous Children de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Bound and bordered in leaf-green, Edged with trellised buds and flowers And glad Summer-gold, with clean White and purple morning-glories Such as suit the songs and stories Of this book of ours, Unrevised in text or scene,-- The Book of Joyous Chi..."></div> </div> </div>

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