BIRTHDAY BOOK FOR YOUNG FOLKS. Twelve original month poems by leading AMERICAN POETS. Selected EDITED BY AMANDA B. HARRIS. ILLUSTRATED. BOSTON: D. LOTHROP & COMPANY, FRANKLIN STREET. To the Boys and Girls: Here are pleasant lines for your special Birthdays; and for each day, which, just the same, begins a new year for you. There is not a word of sadness nor discouragement in them. It is for you to go forward bravely, happily and hopefully — making the world a better and more cheerful place just for your being in it. If you will only have it so, these messages will help you to do it; and to make your own lives noble, useful and pure; to love nature and all simple things; to show kindness to others, and to dumb creatures; to be wise and good and unselfish; to keep from wrong doing; to be sweet and sincere girls, growing up to the best womanhood; to be true and honorable boys, growing up to worthy manhood. May all these good wishes of many poets come true to you. A. B. H. |