Under Blue Skies: Verses & Pictures

Chapter 3: STUDY-HOUR.

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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.

STUDY-HOUR.

O hush! you Robin, you sing and swing
In the lilac tree,
And my lessons seem long when I hear your song
So happy and free.

If only the hours had wings, I know
They would flutter away,
Like the bird on the tree, or the velvet bee,
Or the butterfly gay.

But then I know that a maid like me
Has a life to live,
And my heart and my mind has something to find
Before it can give.

O rest you, Robin, a little while
Your voice and your wing!
And then by-and-by dear Robin and I
Will both sing and swing.