MELODIES FOR CHILDHOOD. THE FIRST WALK. A WONDROUS Venture it must be, Upon this hard old earth of ours; There's caution in that look of thine, Yet thou wilt learn to jump and run These are thy faint first steps in life, And though they seem with danger rife, The peril is not there; But in thine after-goings, child!— For oh, this world is wide and wild, And much more false than fair |