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THE NEW-YEAR’S BARGAIN.
“There was only one body there,—an old, old man withsnow-white hair; but there was a long row of clay figures in front ofhim.”
THE
New-Year’s Bargain.
BY
SUSAN COOLIDGE.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ADDIE LEDYARD.
BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1884.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
ROBERTS BROTHERS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
University Press: John Wilson & Son,Cambridge.
A little golden head close to my knee,
Sweet eyes of tender, gentianella blue
Fixed upon mine, a little coaxing voice,—
Only we two.
“Tell it again!” Insatiate demand!
And like a toiling spider where I sat,
I wove and spun the many-colored webs
Of this and that.
Of Dotty Pringle sweeping out her hall;
Of Greedy Bear; of Santa Claus the good;
And how the little children met the Months
Within the wood.
“Tell it again!” and though the sand-man came,
Dropping his drowsy grains in each blue eye,
“Tell it again! oh, just once more!” was still
The sleepy cry.
My spring-time violet! early snatched away
To fairer gardens all unknown to me,—
Gardens of whose invisible, guarded gates
I have no key,—