The Walloping Window-Blind

An elementary school classmate posted about "The Walloping Window-Blind" on Facebook this morning.  That really took me back.  In 1962, I won second prize in Grade 5 (said elementary school classmate won first prize), and was awarded a book called "The Golden Treasury of Poetry".  At 10 years of age, a poetry book wasn't high on my list of must-haves.  In the Foreward to the book, Louis Untermeyer says,

"This is a book to grow on.

It is also a book to grow with.

In these pages are poems that will become favourites; 

you will never lose your taste for them.

They will be part of you as long as you live."

Fifty-two years and more than ten house moves later, that book still sits on my bookshelf, well thumbed, and somewhat worse for wear. And on page 219, I can still read (and sing) about that "capital ship for an ocean trip", The Walloping Window-Blind.  

Thanks for reminding me, David!