StoryTitle("caps", "Letty's Globe") ?> Globe" gives us the picture of a little golden-haired girl who covers all Europe with her dainty hands and tresses while giving a kiss to England, her own dear native land. (1808-79.)
PoemStart() ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "When Letty had scarce pass'd her third glad year,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "And her young, artless words began to flow,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "One day we gave the child a colour'd sphere", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the wide earth, that she might mark and know,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "By tint and outline, all its sea and land.", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "She patted all the world; old empires peep'd", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Between her baby fingers; her soft hand", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Was welcome at all frontiers. How she leap'd,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "And laugh'd and prattled in her world-wide bliss!", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "But when we turn'd her sweet unlearned eye", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "On our own isle, she rais'd a joyous cry,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Oh! yes, I see it! Letty's home is there!\"", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "And, while she hid all England with a kiss,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Bright over Europe fell her golden hair!", "") ?>