AUTHOR OF “BED-TIME STORIES,”
“MORE BED-TIME STORIES,”
“SOME WOMEN’S HEARTS,” AND “POEMS.”
_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS._
[Illustration]
BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,
1907
_Copyright_, 1880,
BY LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON.
ALFRED MUDGE & SON, INC., PRINTERS,
BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A.
_TO MISTRESS BROWN-EYES._
_At Christmas-tide, by Christmas fire,
You’ll read these tales of mine;--
I see, above my story-book,
Your happy brown eyes shine._
_Dear eyes, that front the future time
So fearlessly to-day,
Oh, may from them some kindly Fate
Keep future tears away,_
_And give you all your heart desires,
My little English maid,
For whom, in this far-distant land,
My loving prayers are said!_
_I pray for Peace, since Peace is good,
For Love, since Love is best:
If prayers bring blessings, Brown-eyed Girl,
How much you will be blest!_
_L. C. M._
_August, 1880._