I Took The Hand and Followed

I Took The Hand and Followed

My dishes went unwashed today
I didn't make the bed
I took the hand that followed
Where the eager footsteps led.

Oh yes we went adventuring
My little child and I
Exploring all the great outdoors
Beneath the summer sky.

We waded in a crystal stream
We wandered through a wood
My kitchen went unswept today
But life was gay and good

We found a cool sun dappled glade
And now my child knows
How a mother bunny hides her nest
And where the Jack-in-the-pulpit grows.

We watched the Robin feed her young
We climbed a sunlit hill
Saw cloud sheep scamper through the sky
We plucked a daffodil

That my house was neglected
That I didn't brush the stairs
In twenty years from now no one on earth
Will know or even care.

But that I've helped a little child
To noble adulthood grow
In twenty years the whole wide world
May look and see and know.

by Mrs. Roy T. Peifer