Under Blue Skies: Verses & Pictures

Chapter 19: KINDERGARTEN.

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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.

KINDERGARTEN.

This is my class,
I am teacher, you see;
They stand in a row
And listen to me;

And never once
Have I seen them try
To whisper or laugh—
They are very shy.

I sometimes fear
They will never do
The nice little games
When I ask them to:

To keep good time,
To march and to sing,
And to whirl about
In a pretty ring.

But, then, I know
They will always do
Whatever they can
When I ask them to.