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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
James Whitcomb Riley
An’ all us other children, when the supper things is done,We set around the kitchen fire an’ has the mostest funA-list’nin’ to the witch tales ’at Annie tells about,An’ the gobble-uns ’at gits youEf youDon’tWatchOut!
And the South Wind—he was dressedWith a ribbon round his breastThat floated, flapped, and flutteredIn it riotous unrestAnd a drapery of mistFrom the shoulder to the wristFloating backward with the motionOf the waving hand he kissed.
And the sun had on a crownWrought of gilded thistledown,And a scarf of velvet vaporAnd a raveled rainbow gown;And his tinsel-tangled hairTossed and lost upon the airWas glossier and flossierThan any anywhere.
Just the wee cot—the cricket’s chirr—Love and the smiling face of her.
One naked star has waded throughThe purple shallows of the night,And faltering as falls the dewIt drips its misty light.
The ripest peach is highest on the tree.