A Book for Kids
C. J. Dennis
language
(, July 15, 2013)
This book is an illustrated version of the original A Book for Kids by C. J. Dennis. “To all good children over four And under four-and-eightyBe you not over-prone to pore On matters grave and weighty.Mayhap you'll find within this book Some touch of Youth's rare clowning,If you will condescend to look And not descend to frowning.The mind of one small boy may hold Odd fancies and inviting,To guide a hand unsure and old That moves, these days, to writing.For hair once bright, in days of yore, Grows grey (or somewhat slaty),And now, alas, he's over four, Though under four-and-eighty.”