Chapter M: A. Bonnell

=A=wake, sweet hope! for she who shares the throne
=L=ends her own merit to make dulness bright,
=E=ven as Luna to the insipid drop its light.

=X=anthine yellow might the aster take for hue,
=A=n emerald green the clove carnation crown,
=N=or could fair England’s rose yet learn to frown.

=D=iadems of humble bloom and royal fleur-de-lis,
=R=are crowns of love, have crowned her long ago;
=A=nd ever round her noble brow more intertwined they grow.

—_M. A. BONNELL_

_July 3rd, 1901._

_The above lines accompanied the copy which was graciously accepted
by Queen Alexandra._

MOTHER GOOSE’S BICYCLE

TOUR.

BY M. S. G.

Toronto:
William Briggs.

With honest pride the rhymer sings
Her ancestress’ renown,—
Oh, proud the day that gave her birth!
And proud her natal town!

Oh, may the theme the verse redeem,
Of meagre wit and rhyming loose,
And win a kind indulgence still
For Mary Susan Goose!

Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year
one thousand nine hundred, by WILLIAM BRIGGS, at the Department of
Agriculture.

Dedicated

By

Permission

To

Miss Liv Nansen

DEDICATION.

1.

Though pure the drifting snows of northern realms,
Dazzling the Aurora of the polar girth,
More stainless still thy fair and childish brow,
More bright the aureole that surrounds thy birth.

2.

Ofttimes a nation bends its tender gaze
To watch the blooming of a royal flower;
Child of heroic blood, genius thy heritage!
The loving interest of a world thy dower!