The Light of a Baby's Smile

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Excerpt from The Light of a Baby's Smile: And Other Rhymes The Poetaster and the Dictionary Oh, Dictionary, mine of varied learning, Auriferously bright your treasures smile, But smiling mock my still unfruitful yearning To cultivate a rich poetic style In priceless stores of verse heaped pile on pile. There seems to murmur through your verbal mazes The music of an undertone sublime Which, linked with cunningly assorted phrases, Would make my name resplendent for all time In treasured volumes of blank verse and rhyme. So, growing still of jingled fancies fonder, With no intent to do high art a wrong, In roseate clouds of verbiage I'll ponder On metric subtilties with purpose strong To find at length the golden key of song. Then will I proudly pass through fame's bright portals And stir the lyric strings with fingers deft, So that my unmelodious fellow mortals Of soothing verse will never be bereft Nor fancy fail while you and I are left. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.