Show PENNY THINGS by DOUGLAS MALLOCH T TUB UE little steps ot of little feet go romping here and there I 1 hear them in the crowded street I 1 hear them everywhere evri evry where and little feet rind life a song and youth a time of play the journey short however long with joys along the way the street an alley little more the children are content they find the windows of a store a land of wonderment though stories tell of queens and kings and silk and I 1 loe e and ruff the windows full of penny things are wonderful enough I 1 wish that we could go our way as little children too and find our pleasure in today as uttie children do they have hare their arenius as well as ours their castles gilt and glass sli s and yet they pause to pick the floars that blossom where they pass however bright the rainbow gleams how great the pot of gold the children know that dreams are dreams but heres a hand to hold and heres a window and a toy and heres a top that sings they never overlook the joy god puts in penny things we build our castles in the air our battlements in spain but if we never journey there the other joys remain so let us do as children do who dream of fairyland and yet who know the pleasure too of pleasure close at hand I 1 hope we never dream so much as through the world we go whatever heights we ever eer touch whatever depths we know we never feel the thrill of yore the thrill that childhood brings before the windows of a store just full of penny things D 1932 douglas malloch service |