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DREAM BLOCKS

by

AILEEN CLEVELAND HIGGINS

Pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith

Duffield & Company New York

CONTENTS

Page
Dream Blocks 1
Stupid You 2
Anagrams 3
Doorsteps 4
The Big Clock 6
The New Dress 7
A Questioning 9
A Test 9
A Quandary 10
Spring Music 11
A Compromise 13
A Rainy Day 14
An Appeal to Science 15
The Runaway 17
Playmates 19
The Echo 21
The Sick Rose 22
Afternoon 23
The Wild 24
Bud Music 25
Frills 26
Gone Somewhere 27
The Chosen Dream 29
Home 30
Dawn 31
The City Tree 32
A Prayer 34
Cap and Bells 35
Summer's Passing 38
When You Wait 39
Punishment 40
First Pity 40
Night 41
Hover-Time 42
Treasure Craft 43
The Moon Path 45
The Ring Charm 45

ILLUSTRATIONS

Facing Page
Title Page ii
Dream Blocks 1
Stupid You 2
Doorsteps 4
The Big Clock 6
A Quandary 10
A Rainy Day 14
The Runaway 18
The Sick Rose 22
Frills 26
Home 30
A Prayer 34
Summer's Passing 38
Punishment 40
Treasure Craft 44

Copyright 1908 by Duffield & Company

Engravings by the Beck Engraving Co.

Presswork by S. H. Burbank & Co. Philadelphia

DREAM BLOCKS

DREAM-BLOCKS

WITH dream-blocks I can build
A castle to the sky.
No one can shake it down,
Though he may try and try,
Except myself, and then,
I make another one,
And shape it as I please.
This castle-building fun
Nobody takes away,
And what I like the best--
The dream-blocks change each day.

STUPID YOU

THERE is a shining thread
To-day in my rose-bed--
A magic net the fairies have outspread
To catch the dewy sweet--and yet you said
It was a cobweb there instead!

ANAGRAMS

TO-DAY when I played anagrams,
I spelled a long word out--
A word named _sorrow_--then I tried
To change it all about
To make it spell another word.
My mother said, "There is a way
To make the sorrow-word spell peace."
I've tried and tried, almost all day;
I've turned the letters round and round,
This way and that, to find out how,
And yet I can not find the way,
And supper time is coming now.

DOORSTEPS