Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE COMMON LITTLE THINGS, by HILDA SHUTTS FARQUHAR


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THE COMMON LITTLE THINGS, by                    
First Line: I should like to write a story
Last Line: Lead to god?
Subject(s): Writing & Writers


I should like to write a story
Without effort, not for glory;
Nothing great and nothing floral;
Just a ramble, with no moral
To the rhyme,
Perhaps about a roving tramp,
Just a wayward dirty scamp;
Or an early butterfly
Flitting through an April sky,
Out of time.

What about a wayside daisy,
Or a lad in spring, grown lazy?
Have you seen a baby smiling?
So endearing, so beguiling,
Isn't he!
Choose a sparrow for a theme;
Elfin circles near a stream.
Bobby Burns . . . he saw a mouse. . . .
Riley's fairy built her house
In a tree.

Mossy bypaths beckon, wander;
What a joy it is to squander
Precious hours midst shady turns,
Seeing wild flowers, little ferns
In the sod.
Have we ever given thought,
When for glory we have sought,
That the common little things,
Like the fluttering of wings,
Lead to God?





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