PLANTING-TIME.
Reading edition
"I've planted a paper of pins in a row; I wonder when will my pin-trees grow?" Cried darling Dora, with puzzled eyes, At aunty's look of complete surprise. "Planted a paper of pins, my dear? They'll never come up, though you wait a year— Yes, you may wait a year and a day, And down in the ground your pins will stay. "Roses and lilies and daisies white, Blossom and flourish in dark and light; But pins will rust in the planted row, For out in the garden no pin-trees grow."