Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SKY-BOY, by EDWARD P. GILCHRIST


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SKY-BOY, by                    
First Line: In the time before forever
Last Line: Yes! He's you!
Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


In the time before forever;
In the land of Never-Never;
Lived a boy.
Lived a boy who played forever
With the stars;
Played forever chasing moonbeams;
Played forever catching star-gleams;
Chasing comets; playing cross-tag
With the little shooting-stars.

But the game he played most often --
The game he loved the best --
Was to balance on a moon-beam
On his toes.
then, tripping, tripping, tripping,
Up the moon-beam he'd go skipping,
'Til he'd strike the poor old Moon-Man
In the nose.

Other times, he'd slip up slyly,
'Round behind the old Moon's back
And he'd whisper in his ear;
"Watch the skies!
Watch for comets! Watch for star-gleams!
Watch for frisky little sun-beams!
Watch! And tell me if you see one
Going by!"

There he'd wait with stars a-beaming,
Sun a-gleaming, comets streaming;
Wait, until the Moon should whisper;
"One is near!"
Oh, then how the comets darted!
How the little sun-beams started!
When he jumped out on them, crying;
"I'm a bear!"

When the time before forever
Turned to now and ever-ever
And the Land of Never-Never
Turned to Now and Everywhere,
Little Sky-Boy started falling
And the stars began a-calling;
Falling, calling; calling, falling;
Down to here.

But he landed very gently
In the Here from out the There,
He just scooted down a rainbow
Made of dew.
Loving eyes looked up and sought him.
Loving arms reached up and caught him,
And the Sky-Boy now is My-Boy!
Yes! He's You!





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