This will be my last comment - occasioned by the fact that I've only just realised that the University High School of this website is NOT the school of the same name in my home town, Melbourne, Australia, from where I'm writing this. (explains why the times of my log ins are so out of sycnh...) So, the fact that the connection expressed through this poem spans not just time but distance adds, for me, to its universality... Bless you, all of you who read, love and record your response to Eugene Field's small masterpiece....