The Little Mouse and the Moon Beam

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"Whilst you were sleeping, little Dear-my-Soul, strange things happened; but that I saw and heard them, I should never have believed them. The clock stood, of course, in the corner, a moonbeam floated idly on the floor, and a little mauve mouse came from the hole in the chimney corner and frisked and scampered in the light of the moonbeam upon the floor. The little mauve mouse was particularly merry; sometimes she danced upon two legs and sometimes upon four legs, but always very daintily and always very merrily." When i was a young girl of 4 or 5 my mother and i lived at my maternal grandparent's. My grandmother read this story to me a myriad of times. I got to know it so well i could say the first paragraph along with her. Eugene Field wrote this lovely poem in 1912. Nice for young and old. He has written many other works as well. I like to share it here during the holidays. You can read it at the URL below: The picture is from my collection. You will need to cut and past the URL.