 | Rhymes and jingles by Mary Mapes Dodge |  |
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Little Charley
What is coming? Something bright.It fills the doorway with its light;
It thrills the room with music sweet
Of laugh and prattle and little feet;
It makes it bloom like a garden bed
With white and blue and yellow and red;
It covers the wall with pictures made
Of every moment's light and shade,
And heightens all the sunlit air
With dancing eyes and flowing hair,
Bidding our hearts sing out with joy—
And yet it's only a little boy,
Only our little Charley.
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