In summer I am very glad We children are so small, For we can see a thousand things That men can't see at all. They don't know much about the moss And all the stones they pass: They never lie and play among The forests in the grass: They walk about a long way off; And, when we're at the sea, Let father stoop
Laurence Alma-Tadema, daughter of painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, was a novelist, playwright, short story writer, and poet. She published six poetry collections, including The Divine Orbit: Seventeen Sonnets (1933), A Gleaner's Sheaf Verses (St. Martin's Press, 1927), and Songs of Womanhood (Grant Richards, 1903). She died in London in 1940.