Practical Recitations

SHORT PIECES FOR SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT

ARRANGED BY

AMOS

M. KELLOGG

Author of 'Primary Speaker," Etc.

FOR CHILDREN OF THIRTEEN YEARS

PHILADELPHIA
THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918

A traveler through a dusty road
Strewed acorns on the lea,
And one took root and sprouted up
And grew into a tree.

A passing stranger scooped a well
Where weary men might bide;
He passed again, and lo! the well,
By summers never dried,

Had cooled ten thousand parched tongues
And saved a life beside.

A dreamer dropped a random thought
'Twas old and yet 'twas new—

A simple fancy of the brain,
But strong in being true.

It shone upon a genial mind,
And lo! its light became
A lamp of life, a beacon ray,
A monitory flame.

A nameless man, amid a crowd
That thronged the daily mart,
Let fall a word of Hope and Love
Unstudied from the heart.

O germ! O fount! O word of lovel
O thought at random cast!

Ye were but little at the first
But mighty at the last.

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