Show J U s t F Folks 0 11 S Py By Edgar A. A Guest FOURTEEN Would I were very wise and knew Just what a growing child should do What joys to grant and what deny What to bestow and what withhold But baffled and perplexed am an I Since fourteens fourteen's neither young nor old I find this problem dark and deep What to discard and what to keep She would be older than her years We as a child would have her stay Yet here a danger grave appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears We would not drive one joy away Plainly in vain we two have clung To what we did when we w. w were r young Customs have greatly changed since then Our childhood long has passed away Those manners will not come again And Janet's fourteen ye years rs to tod to- to d day y This I Is 11 the thought that puzzles me What now is it best beat to do and be These are her times her child hood days She has a right to happy hours So let us wisely guide her ways This is her fourteenth year not riot ours Copyright 1936 1036 by y Edgar A. A Guest |