Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OF SUCH, by ALICE DOUGAN GASS


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First Line: I visited the squirming second grade
Last Line: "she lets us play red rover at recess!"
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


I visited the squirming second grade
Where forty pencils crept a painful pace,
And sadly watched the downward anxious face
Of one near-sighted twisted boy who made
My throat close sharply on my heart's tirade
Against his fellows' heedless lively grace;
I sighed to see him shift his heavy brace
When the dull bell the waiting silence frayed.
But as he darted off to get his cap
He flashed at me a look of happiness,
Rejoicing like a bird from unsprung trap,
Feeling the others' joy no whit the less,
And whispered, with a stealthy, gleeful clap,
"She lets us play Red Rover at recess!"





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