Under Blue Skies: Verses & Pictures

Chapter 12: SWEET GRASS.

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A series of short lyric and nursery poems celebrates childhood and the natural world through images of flowers, birds, insects, family drives, and simple domestic scenes. Vivid sensory detail and gentle rhythms evoke summer play, study hours, picnics, and bedtime imagination, while recurring motifs such as daisies and grass tie pieces together. The sequence alternates observational vignettes and whimsical personifications, offering consolatory, mildly moral tones and pairing brief, songlike verses with pictures to create an accessible experience for young readers.

SWEET GRASS.

The sweet grass grows
Where the Daisy blows,
But how sweet grass with its tender grace..
And the Daisy with its winsome face,
Came to live in the same sweet place,
Nobody knows.

The sweet grass grows
Where the Daisy blows,
And under the shade of the tender grass
The children saw some crickets pass;
But why they were all in black, alas!
Nobody knows.

The sweet grass grows
Where the Daisy blows;
The children pulled till their hands were red;
The grasshoppers shook with fear and fled;
But what Sweet Grass to the Daisy said,
Nobody knows.