THE MUSIC CHARM (A Tiny Tot Rhyme)

When the great man came to play He didn’t chase me far away, But let me stand beside him so That I could watch his fingers go. I never, never saw him make The very tiniest mistake.... And, say, I saw that player look At his ten fingers, and the book At once! So I knew there must be Some trick that he had hid from me! And maybe, when he’d gone away The spell that brought the tunes would stay! So when I felt that nobody Was bothering to notice me, I looked about that piano Inside and outside, high and low, To find that music. Timidly I pressed each finger on a key; Ma said it didn’t sound the same ... It sounded queer and sounded lame, But I don’t care, because some day I’ll make him charm it so’s to stay! And then maybe I’ll sit and look At my ten fingers and the book!