I intended to do well by you all your childhood-days, and to do best at last.

Childhood readers.

Why should she dream of the past, of the days of old, Of her childhood home, and more oft of the home of the dead, Of the grave where she went alone the night before she was wed, And knelt, with her pure cheek pressed to the marble cold?

Early childhood education; its principles and practices.

His time and skill pledged to the oil company he represented, Mr. Gordon had solved the problem of what to do with Betty by sending her to spend the summer with an old childhood friend of his, a Mrs. Peabody who had married a farmer, reputed well-to-do.

Well begun is half done, and half the struggle for happiness is achieved if one's childhood years are made pleasant.

No delay for wandering among the meadows of the pleasant town, for gossip with the men and women who were in childhood playmates of her father and her mother; no strolling along lovely river-banks.

The man was one of his childhood favorites.

It was time for meeting, and he contrasted to-day's emptiness of the long sheds with the crowding vehicles of his childhood memories.

One of Sylvia's most vivid childhood recollections was the dramatic contrast between old Reinhardt with, and without, his violin.

Langsyne!the days of childhood warm, When, tottering by a mother's knee, Each sight and sound had power to charm, And hope was high, and thought was free.

A childhood land of mountain ways, Where earthy gnomes and forest fays, Kind foolish giants, gentle bears, Sport with the peasant as he fares Affrighted through the forest glades, And lead sweet wistful little maids Lost in the woods, forlorn, alone, To princely lovers and a throne.

Often, however, did the mountains which had been familiar to him in his childhood lift their snowy peaks into the clear atmosphere of his poetry.

Childhood poems.

And the spirit-face, with its woe divine, Came back in the hour of sighs; As to men who have lost their aim, and pine, Old faces of childhood rise: He wept for her pleading voice, and the shine Of her solitary eyes.

The old lady sat very still and dreamed, for her brother was playing one of their childhood songs.

" "Ah, Lambkin; with closed ears thou dost not becalm sight and wit, they cease not to fructify under suasion of childhood impregnations.

Childhood innocency is.

The whole account of her childhood life with her brother, her trust in him, their delight in the common pleasures of childhood, and the impression made on her by the beauties of nature, reappears in striking similarity in the description of the child-life of Maggie and Tom.

There is no square, no house, no stone, no tree, That is not witness of my childhood lot.

He did not dare uncover his face to see, for he was still dominated by the memory of Mr. Skale's portentous visage; but his ears were not so easily denied, and he was positive that he heard a voice that called his name as though it were the opening phrase of some sweet, childhood lullaby.

(1) In childhood man is sensitive as a wind harp to all natural influences; he is an epitome of the gladness and beauty of the world.

my mother diedperhaps told me by her in those drifting hours of a childhood nigh forgotten.

When the mountain storm beats the pane at midnight, or the distant lightnings awake me in the hour before dawn, I can forget in what climate I am; but the oblivion is conscious, and half a memory of childhood nights: in an instant comes the recollection, "I am on the coasts, and these are the couriers, of Etna.

In remembrance as a glass, Let your happy childhood pass; Dreaming so in fancy's spells, You still shall hear those old church bells.