The Rescue

                                                                      Ian Serraillier

-:About Him

Ian Serraillier (24 September 1912 – 28 November 1994) was a British novelist and poet. He was also appreciated by children for being a storyteller retelling legends from Rome, Greece and England. Serraillier was best known for his children's books, especially The Silver Sword (1956), a wartime adventure story which was adapted for television by the BBC in 1957 and again in 1971.

            

            .The wind is loud                

.It isn't crying

.The wind is blowing

.His or hers

.The waves are big

?Or yours or mine

.The waves are growing

?Is it dying

?What's that?What's that

?Is it dying

.A dog is crying

The wind is loud

.It's in the sea

.The wind is blowing

.A dog is crying

.The waves are big

His or hers

.The waves are growing

?Or yours or mine

?Where's the boat

.A dog is crying

.It's upside down

.A dog is crying

?And where's the dog

?Is no one there

?And must it drown

.A boat is going

His or hers

.The waves are big

?or yours or mine

.A man is rowing

?O,must it drown

.The waves are big

?O,must it drown

.The waves are growing

?Where's the dog

?Where's the man 

So tired and wet

He's on the sand

.And still it lies

So tired and wet

.I stroke its head

.He cannot stand

.It opens its eyes

?And where's the dog

It wags its tail

.It's in his hand

.So tired and wet

He lays it down

,I call its name

.Upon the sand

,For it's my pet

His or hers

Not his or hers

?Or yours or mine

Or yours,but mine

,The dog is mine

,and up it gets

!The dog is mine !!! and up it gets

Great,Wide,Beautiful,Wonderful , World

                                                                    William Brighty Rands 
                                                                                    

                                                                                              

-:About Him

William Brighty Rands (December 24, 1823, Chelsea, Middlesex — April 23, 1882, East Dulwich, London) was a British writer and one of the major authors of nursery rhymes of Victorian era.

,Great,Wide,Beautiful,Wonderful, World

,With the wonderful water around you curled

,And the wonderful grass on your breast

.World,you are beautifully dressed

,Ah,you are so great,and i am so small

;I tremble to think of you,world , at all

,And yet,when i said my prayers to-day

.A whisper inside me seemed to say

:You are more than earth,though you are such a dot

!!You can love and think,and the earth cannot

Day

Sir Cecil Spring-Rice

-:About Him

Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice GCMG GCVO (27 February 1859 – 14 February 1918), was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918.

Spring-Rice was the son of Hon. Thomas William Spring Rice, second son of the prominent Whig politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.

Commissioner of Public Debt in Cairo 1901

He wrote the present text for the legendary hymn I Vow to Thee My Country, which can now be found in many British Hymn books, revising a poem of his own, about the same time. He was a close friend of Sir Ignatius Valentine Chirol, a British journalist and later diplomat, with whom he corresponded for many years.

Day

.I am busy',said the sea'

.I am busy',think of me'

.making continents to be

.I am busy' ,said the sea'

I am busy',said the rain'

.when i fall it's not in vain'

.wait and you will see the grain

.I am busy' , said the rain'

.I am busy',said the air '

,blowing here and blowing there'

,up and down and everywhere

.I am busy',said the air'

.I am busy' , said the sun'

,all my planets,every one'

.know my work is never done

,I am busy',said the sun'

,sea and rain and air and sun

,here's a fellow toiler-one

.whose task will soon be done

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

William Wordsworth

-:About Him

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age inEnglish literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud 

.I Wandered lonely as a cloud

.that floats on high o'er vales and hills

,when all at once i saw a crowd 

;a host,of golden daffodils

,beside the lake,beneath the trees

.fluttering and dancing in the breeze

.continuous as the stars that shine

,and twinkle on the milky way

they stretched in never-ending line

:along the margin of a bay

,ten thousand saw i at a glance

.tossing their heads in sprightly dance

;the waves beside them danced,but they

:outdid the sparkling waves in glee

,a poet could not but be gay

:in such a jocund company

i gazed and gazed but little thought

:what wealth the show to me had brought

for often,when on my couch i lie

,in vacant or in pensive mood

they flash upon that inward eye

;which is the bliss of solitude

,and then my heart with pleasure fills

.and dances with the daffodils