StoryTitle("caps", "The Flying Squirrel") ?>
Flying Squirrel" is an honest account of a live creature that won his
way into scores of hearts by his mad pranks and affectionate ways. It is enough
that John Burroughs has commended the poem.
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of all the woodland creatures,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The quaintest little sprite", "") ?>
PagePoem(61, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is the dainty flying squirrel", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In vest of shining white,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In coat of silver gray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And vest of shining white.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His furry Quaker jacket", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is trimmed with stripe of black;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A furry plume to match it", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is curling o'er his back;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "New curved with every motion,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His plume curls o'er his back.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No little new-born baby", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Has pinker feet than he;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Each tiny toe is cushioned", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With velvet cushions three;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Three wee, pink, velvet cushions", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Almost too small to see.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who said, \"The foot of baby", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Might tempt an angel's kiss\"?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I know a score of school-boys", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who put their lips to this,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This wee foot of the squirrel,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And left a loving kiss.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The tiny thief has hidden", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My candy and my plum;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah, there he comes unbidden", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To gently nip my thumb,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down in his home (my pocket)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He gently nips my thumb.", "") ?>
PagePoem(62, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How strange the food he covets,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The restless, restless wight;—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fred's old stuffed armadillo", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He found a tempting bite,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fred's old stuffed armadillo,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With ears a perfect fright.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Lady Ruth's great bureau,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Each foot a dragon's paw!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The midget ate the nails from", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His famous antique claw.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, what a cruel beastie", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To hurt a dragon's claw!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To autographic copies", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Upon my choicest shelf,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To every dainty volume", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The rogue has helped himself.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My books! Oh dear! No matter!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The rogue has helped himself.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yet, my little squirrel,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Your taste is not so bad;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You've swallowed Caird completely", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And psychologic Ladd.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rosmini you've digested,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Kant in rags you've clad.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gnaw on, my elfish rodent!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lay all the sages low!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My pretty lace and ribbons,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They're yours for weal or woe!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My pocket-book's in tatters", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Because you like it so.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Mary E. Burt.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>