A Tomboy

She comes! she comes! with song And gleo She leads her train o'er lawn anü Ba! And fair and fiec her wind-blowi :ress, Her flecy scarf, her careles drees, Her sweet girl Toice, that bird like sings, Hr merry laugb, that tirelesc ringe l!i"h o'er thkse boomiog eounds of snort - All bail! wilil qaeen of madcap court! Ni daisy chain will this eay girl E're weave to deck her dancing curl; No wreath entwine of bud or bell, l hough both, she wots, bocome her well; Not hers to guess of joy or grief By conuing of a holly leaf : She tenis not fortune's smilo or frown By pafts of dandelion down; No necklace frames of rowau gems, Nor fragrant, flower-wruught diadeaie! No poet ehe to doseand dream Loog, lazy hours by hauuted streain! Ii small the brook, she'U head her traía And leap it o'er and back again; Or if her boys wil! but away Sue'U wade it, maybe - I In't say. Her boys - all boys - around her press For luve of ber sweet winsomeness, And dogs that bark for very glee - A harum-scarum comiiany! . he's o'er the ka, she's won the wood, ltiis daiuty bud of maidtsnhood! Fhost) juyous peáis, I trow, bespeak i bt gay, glad uitrtb of hide and seek, As tiazel dell and brackenvd glade Her g aceless band m turos mvade; Litil she reeks or Bhreds, Bat boiüly breasts the ürauible bed9 'Tis ehe haa bade them rig the swing, Auil wood forfires uuballowed briua; ' ris she the torch illicit waves, Aud leads her troops through murky cayes ; 'Tis she hatli crossHd the pine trunk thin. rhat, rocsing, bridgts yon dark linn - With joyous cheer and wild halloo Hounds on her hoEtto derring-do! Tis sho has taught those nimble feet To scatter wide tlie Windows sweet; On fragrant hay-racks )ed the fo., iVnil loug hours' work at onco lid lqw; Yet Farmer Svvan, wbo from the Btile Haa watched it al!, ne'r ceased to 6iuila - (iod biess har purty fai! She be A rognlar Toinooy, eartiulee!'