Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="THE_INTRODUCTION" id="THE_INTRODUCTION"></SPAN>THE INTRODUCTION</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I'm askin' you'll be easy for a bit, Sir,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The lad's had little but a thrush's schoolin',</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The blue skies and the fields, the little whipster,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">'Tis time enough for something more&mdash;(But whisper)</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">He'll go the better for an easy rulin'.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Herself was always for the bit of readin'</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">But Denny here, he's great for growin' things,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">There's not a primrose that he'd not be heedin'</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Herself is right 'tis graver things he's needin'</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The thrush is tamer when you clip his wings.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I'd never have you spare him with the learnin',</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">(And, Faith, 'tis little that the lad has had),</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">But if above his task you'll see him turnin'</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">To watch the fields&mdash;'tis just the thrush's yearnin'&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">I'm askin' you'll be easy with the lad.</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />