Dr Do-Diddily and the Dee-Dot's present another wonderful verse from the American writer who wrote some of the best children's verses ever.
This is one of his best, I love it !
SHUFFLE-SHOON AND AMBER-LOCKS.
Shuffle-Shoon and Amber Locks
Sit together, building blocks;
Shuffle-Shoon is old and grey,
Amber-locks a little child
But together as they play
Age and youth are reconciled,
And with sympathetic glee
Build their castles fair to see.
"When I grow to be a man,"
See the wee ones prattle ran,
"I shall build a castle so.
With a gateway broad and grand;
Here a pretty vine shall grow,
There a soldier guard shall stand;
And the tower shall be so high
Folks will wonder, by-and-by !"
Shuffle-Shoon quoth : "Yes I know;
Thus I built long ago !
Here a gate and there a wall,
Here a window, there is door
Here a steeple wondrous tall
Riseth ever more and more !
But the years have levelled low
What I built long ago !"
So they gossiped at their play,Heedless of the fleeting day;
One speaks of the Long Ago,
Where his dead hopes buried lie:
One with chubby cheeks aglow
Prattleth of the By-and-by ;
Side by side they built their blocks,
Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks.
EUGENE FIELD
