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HERE’S many a way of telling time in this blessed world of ours,

   
  
 

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, the hour-glass, and the sun-dial in the sun,
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HEN kissing-time comes in the morning, I know it as well as can be
By the way these lads and lasses come crowding close round me,
With mouths puckered up like a gentian and eyes overflowing with love,
And faces wreathed in sweetest smiles; all this to my judgment doth prove
That all the clocks in all the world, however so many there be,
Exactly point to kissing-time ; at least for the children and me.

ND when sleepy-time comes in the evening, I know it as well as can be
By the way these lads and lasses come crowding about my knee, ;
With eyes that in the morning's prime sparkled with liquid light,
With faces where sweet trust takes up her vigil for the night.
So all the clocks in all the world, however so many there be,

Exactly point to sleepy-time ; at least for the children and me.
CHARLOTTE F. DALEY.

 

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