Child Songs of Cheer

<h2><SPAN name="THE_PICTURE-BOOK_GIANT" id="THE_PICTURE-BOOK_GIANT"></SPAN>THE PICTURE-BOOK GIANT</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Once there was a fierce, defiant,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Greedy, grumpy, grizzly giant<br/></span> <span class="i2">In the pages of a picture-book, and he<br/></span> <span class="i0">Sometimes screamed, in sudden rages,<br/></span> <span class="i0">"I must jump out from these pages,<br/></span> <span class="i2">For this life's a much too humdrum one for me!<br/></span> <span class="i6">Fiddle-dee!<br/></span> <span class="i2">Yes, this life's a quite too quiet one for me!"<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">So one rainy day he did it,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Took the picture-book and hid it,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Stamped his foot, and shouting loudly,<br/></span> <span class="i6">"Now I'm free!"<br/></span> <span class="i0">Boldly started out, forgetting<br/></span> <span class="i0">That he could not stand a wetting!<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</SPAN></span><span class="i0">He was just a paper giant, don't you see?<br/></span> <span class="i6">Dearie me!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Just a gaudy, picture giant, don't you see?<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />