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Songs of the shining way

Chapter 2: To EDNA CHAFFEE NOBLE.
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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.

To EDNA CHAFFEE NOBLE.

For her who dared to take the girl
Half-formed and careless to her heart,
I write these simple childish rhymes,
That she may have that early part,
The baby that she might not see,
The childhood fancies missed in me.
S. N.-I.