Explore "Babyhood. (down Around the River Poems)" by James Whitcomb Riley on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Heigh-ho! Babyhood! Tell me where you linger: / Let's toddle home again, for we have gone astray; / Take this eager hand of mine and lead me by the finger / Back to the Lotus lands of the far-away.
Turn back the leaves of life; don't read the story, -- / Let's find the _pictures_, and fancy all the rest: -- / We can fill the written pages with a brighter glory / Than Old Time, the story-teller, at his very best!