CONTENTS. PAGE. BOOK F IRST . . . . . . . . . 5-59 EDITOR PARLE LIRIINA . R IES BOOX FInST. If without water you can swim, Plunge tupward, take to the air, Open aloft your wings and skim, The ocean is everywhere. Old sower, Johnny Appleseed, Now sow into a rhyme thy creed.-When the corn you plant, Be not of seed too scant If the field you would rightly till, . Put-in four grains to the hill One for the mouse and one for the crow, One to rot and one to grow Then shall the tiller, Surely see the miller. 6 JOHNNY APPLESEEDS RH17diES. There is n music in the time, There is a music in the heart The former runs into a rhyme, Then seeks its tuneful , counterpart. Some days it is a blessing, Some days it is a curse But cursi lgo r caressing, Straightmay it turns to verse. 5. How to get rid of evils Rhymes have power to cast out devils Rlaily a time I would have cried, Had I not versified. 6. i A word often longs to be mated With the sound of jolly cris-cringle, Such a word is certai lyfa ted To run off with a jingle. Many thine ills, but do not complain, Bravely in silence bear them alone If thou tell them, thy neighbor will tell thee again A-hundred of his to one of thine own. BOOK 3 2ST. 8. Be not too fast, Else you cannot last Be not too slow, Else you need not go. 9. Just match the loog-eared donkey ,. , Of quadrllpeds most spunky He will not imitate, You cannot make of hirn a monkey, He will not train to be a flunkey, He cares not for his state, He keeps the self-same gait, He takes no man as master, However great Hc goes not one step faster, He is Fate. 10. Say, mhat is now our barnyard lorc It is not mhat it was before. To the crowing hen J7e cry amen, At the cackliilg cock TVe. shy a rock, And though me cluck to the little brood That it may get its tiny food, The smallest chick Doth learn the biggest trick. Hark I they are hooting like owls, The good old barnyard fowls. 8 JOHNNY APPLESEEDS RHYHES. b 6 Say, why do you skip and scamper In these verses wit h capers so jolly -The wise man will use a damper By wearing a mask of folly. 12. A man without money Humbly begged me for bread I gave it with butter well spread In an angry splutter He loudly demanded some honey On to13 of the butter. The philosophers stone, Tell how call it be known - If the philosopher had no stone, Poor inan I he would be left all alone And if the stone had no philosopher, Poor stone I it woulcl not go so very far. Let good reading Be good heeding, Let the best Be thy test. Then Appleseeds rhymes Will jingle lifes chimes. BOOIl FIRST. Rain and sunshine together Make the worlcls weather But men will whine If they have no shine, And they complain, If they have no rain. Yet rain and shine do uever satisfy, Ifan wants the sky. If you ever get sated, You that lnoinent are fated But if you strive, You stay alive . To push over the line, That is divine Though you suffer the pain Upborne on the cross, The very gain Springs out of the loss Aye, to be fateless Is to be sateless. 17. Be not held by what thou art, But by what thou art to be Break the limit of thy deed, And reach over destiny. 10 JOEINhrY APPLESEEDS RHIWES. 18. To-day on the street I met old Nick, He limped dong while holding a stick Old fellow, what is the trouble Tell me, why dost thou hobble He answered Change thy sight, For me I walk aright I nbte thy foot - it is splayed, See mine - it is correctly made. An indestructible unit see In the n inuteatp ersonality AII-d if you see it You ought to be it, Ant1 if you are it, Then share it, For true salvation Is impartation. 20...