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Title: Child Songs of Cheer
Author: Evaleen Stein
Illustrator: Antoinette Inglis
Release Date: September 27, 2006 [EBook #19389]
Language: English
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[Illustration: DANDELIONS]
Dandelions, dandelions, shining through the dew, Let the Kings have
Cloth of Gold, but let _us_ have _you_!
CHILD SONGS OF CHEER
BY
EVALEEN STEIN

ILLUSTRATIONS BY
ANTOINETTE INGLIS
BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.
Published, August, 1918
COPYRIGHT, 1918,
BY LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

_Dear Children, all the little words
These printed pages through,

They are a flock of little birds
I bring to sing to you.
Sometimes they sing of foolish things,
And other times they try
To
tell their gladness when their wings
Soar up to seek the sky.
So, Sweethearts, do but kindly hark!
If but a sparrow throng,
Or if
among them there's a lark,
To you their songs belong!_

Contents
Up, Little Ones!
Dandelions
Our Puppies
The Lost Balloon
The Circus Procession
May-Baskets
The Picture-Book Giant

Did You Ever?
Decoration Day
Chu-Chu Cars
Fairy Rings
The Firefly
A Rain Song
Fairies
The Little Fir-Trees
The Wren-House
The Baby's Ride
An Indian Raid
The First Sleigh-Ride
Sleepy Time
When Bettie and Anne Went Walking
The Bluebird
The Organ-Grinder
The New Moon
Showery Time
Easter Day
The Sandman

Dandelion Curls
Pop-Corn
The Rash Little Sparrow
What If?
Easter Eggs
The Birds' Bath
November Morning
The Runaway
Lost!
The Queen's Page
Our Tree-Toad
In the Water-World
Who Was It?
Visiting Day
A Valentine to Catherine
Fireflies
The Rainy Day
The First Red-Bird
The Weather-Vane
The Swan

Baby's Baking
A Sure Sign
Another Sure Sign
The Robin's Bath
The Frosted Pane
The First Snow
Grandfather Knows
Sleigh-Bells
The Red-Bird
Wild Beasts
Wherefore Wings?
Basking
With a May-Basket for Baby Agnes
The Little Nest
Christmas Candles
A Song of the Christmas-Tree
Our Kittens
In July
A Valentine to a Little Child
Zip!

A Little Carol
Song
The Three Candles

Illustrations
DANDELIONS
Dandelions, dandelions, shining through the dew,
Let the kings have
Cloth of Gold, but let _us_
have _you_! _Frontispiece_
FAIRY RINGS
See them dancing, dancing,
While the silver moon
Tips their
swiftly glancing
Little silver shoon!
THE BIRDS' BATH
When the sun shines warm and high
Robins cluster round its brink
CHRISTMAS CANDLES
We can tell Him of our love
If we set a light for Him

Child Songs of Cheer
UP, LITTLE ONES!
A robin redbreast, fluting there
Upon the apple-bough,
Is telling all
the world how fair
Are apple-blossoms now;
The honey-dew its
sweetness spills
From cuckoo-cups, and all
The crocuses and
daffodils
Are drest for festival!

Such pretty things are to be seen,
Such pleasant things to do,
The
April earth it is so green,
The April sky so blue,
The path from
dawn to even-song
So joyous is to-day,
Up, little ones! and dance
along
The lilac-scented way!
DANDELIONS
Hey-a-day-a-day, my dear! Dandelion time!
Come, and let us make
for them a pretty little rhyme!
See the meadows twinkling now, beautiful and bright
As the sky
when through the blue shine the stars at night!
Once upon a time, folks say, mighty kings of old
Met upon a splendid
field called "The Cloth of Gold."
But, we wonder, could it be there was ever seen
Brighter gold than
glitters now in our meadows green?
Dandelions, dandelions, shining through the dew,
Let the kings have
Cloth of Gold, but let _us_ have _you_!
OUR PUPPIES
Little ears as soft as silk,
Little teeth as white as milk,
Little noses
cool and pink,
Little eyes that blink and blink,
Little bodies round
and fat,
Little hearts that pit-a-pat,
Surely prettier puppies never

Were before nor can be ever!
THE LOST BALLOON
O dear! my purple toy balloon
Has flown away! and very soon
It
will be high up as the moon!
And don't you think the man up there
Will wonder what it is, and
stare?
Perhaps hell say, "_Well, I declare!_"

Or, maybe if it chance there are
Some little boys in yonder star,

And if it floats away so far,
Perhaps they'll jump up very high
And catch the cord as it goes by!

At any rate I hope they'll try!
THE CIRCUS PROCESSION
_Oh, hurry! hurry!_ here they come,
The band in front with