Child Songs of Cheer

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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 the big bass drum?And blaring bugles,--there they are,?On golden thrones in a golden car,?Tooting and fluting, oh, how grand!
Hi diddle, diddle!
The fife and the fiddle!
_Hurrah, hurrah_ for the circus band!
And the red-plumed horses, oh, see them prance?And daintily lift their hoofs and dance,?While beautiful ladies with golden curls?Are jingling their bridles of gold and pearls,
And close behind
Come every kind
Of animal cages great and small,?O