IF I COULD…

If I could patch a coverlet 

From pieces of the Spring,

What dreams a happy child would have 

Beneath so fair a thing!

A center of the dear blue sky,

A bordering of green,

With patches of the yellow sun

All checkered in between.

Bright ribbons of the silky grass

Laced prettily across,

With satin of new little leaves,

And velvet of the moss.

In every corner, violets,

Half-hidden from the view,

With many-flowered squares betwixt,

Of pinky tints and blue…

Embroideries of little vines,

And spider-webs of lace…

With gold-thread I would sew the seams,

And needles of the pine;

Oh never child in all the world

Would have a quilt like mine.”

~Abbie Farwell Brown~

“Spring Patchwork” 1901

Abbie Farwell Brown (August 21, 1871 – March 5, 1927) was an American writer.  She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the first of two daughters of Benjamin F. Brown, a descendant of Isaac Allerton, and Clara Neal Brown, who contributed to The Youth's Companion. Her sister Ethel became an author and illustrator under the name Ann Underhill. Her family, for ten generations, had only resided in New England, and Brown herself spent her entire life in her family's Beacon Hill home.

You can read about Abbie at this link.