In the Morning by Willis Boyd Allen - HTML preview

PAUSES AND CLAUSES.

TO MY LITTLE NIECE, KITTIE.

[With a Maltese Kitten.]

Kittie Mabel, will you take

This gift, for the giver’s sake?

Verse and song and roundelay

Will be yours this merry day;

Mine are all unfit to send,

Tattered rhymes, too poor to mend.

But, although I haven’t any

Songs, my thoughts are swift and many.

All are flying straight to you,

And your heart, so sweet and true,

I am sure, dear, won’t decline

This small, furry Valentine.