Saturday, January 30, 2010
See the copyright date of 1899?
“Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw:
Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,
A little louder, but as empty quite:
Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper state,
And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age:
Pleased with this bauble still, as that before,
Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.”
Peggy Lee would have followed that up with; “If that’s all there is, I’ll keep on dancing.”
