BONNIE wee laddies, and rosy-check’d lassies,
Joyfully trotting to Kindergart classes,
How gaily you march to the music of duty;
Pictures and poems your emblems of beauty.
The words you are singing in infantine play
May resound in your hearts till the close of your day.
Light-hearted school-boys, reluctantly turning
Your lingering steps to the ladder of learning,
Rouse up your energies, open your eyes,
At every step you may pick up a prize;
Aim at the highest while reading the story
Of all the mind-heroes emblazoned in glory.
Chattering damsels with loose flowing tresses,
Tripping to school in your short-skirted dresses,
Leaflets of interest flutter around you.
Poetry, painting and music surround you,
Ever aspiring and ever progressing,
O may each quarter-day bring you a blessing.
Young men and maidens in graduate college,
Turning the key in the temple of knowledge,
Pages of wisdom still open before you,
The light of the Future is hovering o’er you:
Mazes of mystery you may unravel;
Bright is the pathway your footsteps may travel.
All ye of maturity, plodding through life,
Husband or brother, spinster or wife,
Cease not to study the chapter of thought;
Practice the precepts that chapter has taught;
So when your school closes for summer vacation,
You may joyfully welcome complete recreation.
(Emily Mary Barton)
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