Songs of the shining way

Chapter 4: THE BEGINNING.

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About This Book

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.

THE BEGINNING.

Here is the beginning of the road;

And it’s morning on the hill-top in the sky;

And there’s mist across the valley to hide the Shining Way,

That’s full of other children and happy hours of play,

Where Dorothy will travel by and by.

The air is full of voices strange and sweet,

That crowd around her cradle as it swings.

She thinks they’re made of something white that shimmers on the grass,

For she doesn’t know a dew-drop from the bobolinks that pass,

And she doesn’t know a host of other things.