Johnny Appleseed's Rhymes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Johnny Appleseed's Rhymes

Johnny Appleseed's Rhymes.

There is a 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 cursing or caressing,
Straightway it turns to verse.

How to get rid of evils
Rhymes have power to cast out devils;
Many a time I would have cried,
Had I not versified.

A word often longs to be mated
With the sound of jolly cris-cringle,
Such a word is certainly fated
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.

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