Under Blue Skies: Verses & Pictures

Chapter 16: THE LILY POND.

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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.

THE
LILY
POND.

The wind is fair,
Shall we take a row,
Down to the cove
Where the lilies grow?
Their petals white
To the sun unfold,
Their trembling hearts
Are yellow as gold.
My boat is as safe
As a boat can be;
You need not fear
To go with me.

A fleet of lilies,
So fresh and fair,
Like fairy ships,
Are anchored there.
They rock and dip
With every breeze,
Like real ships
On real seas.
My boat is as safe
As a boat can be;
You need not fear
To go with me.