SELIGOR'S CASTLE
AND ANOTHER POEM FROM DIDDILY DEE DOT'S
CHOICE
Eugene Field
(1850-1895) was an unusual poet in that he was one
of the few poets who
wrote only children's poetry. Rather
unimaginatively, he was nicknamed,
The Children's Poet. "BOOH!" By Eugene
Field
On
afternoons, when baby boy has had a splendid
nap,
and sits, like any monarch on his throne, in
nurse's lap,
in some such wise my handkerchief I hold before my
face,
and cautiously and quietly I move about the
place;
then, with a cry, I suddenly expose my face to
view,
and you should hear him laugh and crow when I say
"booh"!
Sometimes the rascal tries to make believe that he
is scared,
and really, when I first began, he stared, and
stared, and
stared;
and then his under lip came out and farther out it
came,
till mamma and the nurse agreed it was a "cruel
shame" -
but now what does that same wee, toddling, lisping
baby do
but laugh and kick his little heels when I say
"booh!"
He laughs and kicks his
little heels in rapturous glee, and
then
in shrill, despotic treble bids me "do it all
aden!"
And I - of course I do it; for, as his
progenitor,
it is such pretty, pleasant play as this that I am
for!
And it is, oh, such fun I and sure that we shall
rue
the time when we are both too old to play the game
"booh!"
Posted 11:57
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