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THE ROAD TO CHINA
Olive Beaupr Miller
I learned today the world is round
Like my big rubber ball,
With China on the other side,
Down there below us all.
And so I went and dug a hole, —
I started in at eight, —
And dug and dug and dug and dug,
Beside the garden gate.
And Oh, I thought, what fun ’twill be
To get a ladder tall.
And climb right down to China through
The hole behind the wall!
What fun to walk through little streets
All lit with lanterns queer!
Each man will have a pig- tail, and
How strange the talk you hear!
To think the road to China lies
Just by our garden wall!
Then Daddy came and said, “Ho! Ho!
That’s not the way at all!
To get to China, you must sail
For days across the sea!” —
Why there’s no short cut through the earth
Seems very queer to me!
And still I sit beside my hole
And dream and dream away,
Of that strange far-off country where
They’ve night time in our day!
