A Little Girl Picking Flowers. From the pen of the just as brilliant "Willowdown."

 SELIGOR'S CASTLE

ONE OF THE MOST FUN FILLED CASTLE'S ON THE NET

Just one of the wonderful new poems from

Pete "Willowdown" Crossland

                           

A young girl picking flowers.

A young girl picking flowers

does not count the hours

- to her the passing minutes

have no end or limit...

But in the bank and in the church

the minutes and the hours lurch

and 'though he tries, the priest or clerk

cannot make time flow in reverse.

At bus-stops and train stations

throughout Time's censused nations,

young children skip and pass between

the prison bars of Time's regime;

a young boy has no notion

of life's grim forward motion

but gaily plays with golden things

within the court of deathless Kings.

Yet Time is father to the man

and holds life's key and master plan

- or so we trust and so we hope,

else all men's lives are but a joke.

But what grown man cannot but dream

of freedom from Time's dull regime?

and fondly he can still recall

the wooden toy and golden ball...

What fortune can such treasure buy?

Let merchant risk his soul to try

- his toil and effort will not yield

a day's release from Time's grey fields.

Yet, penniless, the children play

and own the world and all the day.

The boy that climbs the chestnut tree

partakes of some great Mystery

and the young girl with her flowers

is Queen of all the passing hours!

From the pen of the Wonderful "Willowdown" 

Come and see the little bugs with Christina Rossetti, it is so nice.

Thu, 16 Jun 2011

Don't hurt the living beings.... a poem by Christina Rossetti. plus a few more that you should enjoy xxx Seligor

Seligor's Castle, fun for all the children of the world. Little BoPeep Hurt No Living Thing Hurt no living thing, Ladybird or Butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing, Nor cricket chirping cheerily, Nor grasshopper, so light of leap, Nor dancing gnat, Nor beetle fat, Nor harmless worm that creeps.                                                                          By Christina Rossetti.

Seligor's Castle, fun for all the children of the world. : Homepage 1

Seligor's Castle, fun for all the children of the world. : http://seligorscastle.zoomshare.com/.27/

Fairy Stories / Rhymes from the children of yesteryear.

DIDDILYDEEDOT'S DREAM-WORLD
FAIRY STORIES
VERSES WRITTEN BY CHILDREN BEFORE 1937
IF ANY CHILD WHO OF COURSE WILL NOW BE WELL INTO THEIR 70'S CAN REMEMBER WRITING THESE RHYMES/POEMS, IT WOULD BE LOVELY IF YOU COULD GET IN TOUCH WITH ME AT
dottido@hotmail.co.uk 
I WOULD BE VERY PLEASED TO HEAR FROM YOU, MAYBE YOU WENT ON TO BECOME AN AMAZING POET IN YOUR LATER LIFE.


FAIRIES IN THE GLEN
Have you seen the elves and fairies
Down in Greenwood Glen ?
I think I have, I think I have,
I've seen some wee, wee men.

I've seen some pretty fairies, too
With shiny, shimmering wings,
And I've heard some fairy music -
It's so sweet when a fairy sings.
       Patricia Adams (age 9)

FAIRIES

In the land where fairies dwell

There stands a lovely wishing-well.

I wish you could see the fairies there

Washing their golden, curly hair

And there upon a summer night

Sits the Queen in her delight,

Bringing joy to every friend,

Happiness that has no end.

          Joyce Farmer (Age 10)

FAIRY REVELS
With a whisper of tiny voices, a rustling of the breeze
That is very gently stirring the supple green trees,
A hundred little moombeams filtering through the glass,
A million little fairies are dancing on the grass.

A tiny, little fairy band tinkling ts fairy tune,
Whispering out its melody, stealing through the gloom,
With a clash of fairy cymbals, a twirl of fairy feet,
All the dainty fairies fly home to Fairy Street.
                                                               Jean Sanders (Age 12)

Dodie's Dream World : Blog

Dodie's Dream World : Blog: "Wed, 09 Feb 2011
Stories and Pictures about old Japan


STORIES ABOUT JAPAN

ANNIE R BUTLER

Stories about Japan



Written around 1888, this book by Annie R Butler was published in London by The Religious Tract Society, at 56 Paternoster Row and 65 St. Paul's Churchyard.

After I have finished adding the pictures and some of the text, I will be contacting the Church Missionary Society in London to ask them if they would like to have this copy for their library.

Or if they have a good copy already, if they know of anyone who will benefit it. (At no cost obviously)

I thought I would write out the Preface for the book, that would seem the best way to explain the pictures, along with their captions.



PREFACE

These 'Stories about Japan' are meant for children.

They are a mosaic from many sources; amongst others, from J. J. Rein's learned work on Japan, Sir Edward James Reed's Japan, Miss Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, Eugene Stock's masterly resume of the history of Japan and the Japan Mission, and Coleridge's Life and Letters of Xavier; also from various American periodicals - Life and Light, Mission Dayspring, Missionary Link, Helping Hands, Little Helpers, and Children's Work for Children.

I am indebted to the Church Missionary Society, the Baptist Missionary Society, and to the Women's Board of Missins, Boston, for the gift of various back numbers of their publications which throw light upon the country, people, and missions of Japan; and to two friends who have been in that land for verbal and written information on the same subjects. I have also to thank one of these friends - a missionary for many years' experience - for her kindness in criticising the greater part of my manuscript!

A. R. B.

And so lets begin with a wonderful picture of

A Kuruma, or Jinriksha

A Kuruma, or JinrikshaUnless otherwise mentioned, the words are those of Annie R. Butler


'Land of the sun! what foot invades They pagods and thy pillared shades, Thy cavern shrines and idol stones, Thy monachs and their thousand thrones?'

- Moore

There were, so runs the story I have just been reading, in the far back ages - 'In the beginning,' as we should say - three deities dwelling in otherwise uninhabited space. Their names were the Lord of the Centre of Heaven, the Lofty Producer, and the Divine Producer.




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