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“Mamma,” said our Sue,

“You sent me to-day,

Up stairs with the nurse

And Willie to play.

“And I told her I thought

It was wicked and silly,

To say things like these

To our dear little Willy—

“‘Oh, hi-diddle,

Diddle,

The cat has the

Fiddle,

The cow has jumped

Over the moon,

The little dog laughed

To see all the sport,

And the dish ran away

With the spoon.’

“Nurse says she has found

The book of great use,

For children are pleased

To hear Mother Goose.

“Now, is it not wrong

To tell them a lie?

If not, I am sure

I cannot see why.”

“I think you are right,”

Her mother replied;

“Nurse must try to amuse him

With something beside.

“But babies are pleased

With the jingle of rhyme,

And old Mother Goose

Has been used a long time.

“We must find Wee-Wee Songs,

That are not quite so silly,

And buy them for nurse,

To amuse little Willy.

“We give him, each day,

Fresh milk and sweet bread,

And his dear little mind

Must be properly fed.

“’Tis not easy to find

Sweet thoughts, good and true,

In nursery rhymes;

I wish, my dear Sue,

That those who love Jesus

Would oftener read

Those sweet words he uttered,

My lambs ye must feed![1]

“For this beautiful world,

So joyous and bright,

Has so many things

Of which poets might write.

“The blue sky above us,

The flowers and the trees,

The warbling of birds,

And the hum of the bees.

“These bright thoughts would give

Our darling great pleasure,

If written in simple,

And sweet-flowing measure.