LESSONS.
Reading edition
AUNT LIZZIE.
Out in the sunny garden-plot, Among the blossoms gay, The lilies and the four-o'clocks, What have you learned to-day?
ALFRED. Loud humming in a hollyhock, I heard a little bee: He filled his yellow thighs with wax, And this he taught to me: "Short time have I to honey win; Short time have you to study in; Soon life and summer glide away: We must keep busy every day."
BESSY. And on a purple candytuft I saw a butterfly: It waved its red-and-yellow wings, And said, "A worm was I: Be cheerful whatso'er befall, And hope to soar when forced to crawl."
CHARLEY. Among some morning-glories set There grew the fragrant mignonette: It said to me, "A winning grace A kind heart lends the plainest face: Who would my simple blossom choose Should I my pleasant perfume lose?"
DORA. Upon a green sweetbrier bough, A pleasant, shady place, All hung with dew, like gems, I found A web of silver lace; And on it, with its many eyes, I saw a spider watching flies, Who taught me this: "One must beware; The fairest thing may prove a snare."
AUNT.
Four useful lessons you have learned This happy summer hour, Taught by a bee, a butterfly, A spider, and a flower.
MARIAN DOUGLAS.
DRAWING-LESSON. VOL. XXX.—NO. 4.
