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Songs of the shining way

Chapter 11: BY COACH.
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A collection of short, lyrical poems for children that follows a child’s imaginative progress from dawn through meadows, play, and fanciful travels along a luminous pathway. Vignettes blend simple narratives—first steps, coach rides, fairyland, voyages, and garden scenes—with reflective pieces on moonlight, insects, and rainbows, highlighting wonder, innocence, and small discoveries. The verses are compact and rhythmic, often voiced from a child’s perspective, and are accompanied by the author’s own illustrations that reinforce the gentle, dreamlike mood.

BY COACH.

We’re traveling hard and fast to-day,—
Jimmy and Alice and me—
Bowling along on the Shining Way,
With a royal coach and three.
We laugh at the folk who are passing by,
Dragging their weary feet
Deep in the dust that our whizzing wheels
Have raised in the flying street.
Fields and forests flit out of sight;
And if all goes just as we planned
We’ll travel on till we reach the bars
At the entrance to Fairy Land.
And what is the coach on our lordly quest?
And where are the foaming three?
Why, the coach is the dump-cart, and the rest—
Just Jimmy and Alice and me.