No, no, let us play, for it is yet day, Besides in the sky the little birds fly, And the hills are all cover'd with sheep. Well, well, go and play till the light fades away, And then go home to bed. The little ones leap'd and shouted and laugh'd And all the hills echoed. Ο A DREAM. NCE a dream did weave a shade That an emmet lost its way Where on grass methought I lay. Troubled, wilder'd, and forlorn, "O my children! do they cry? Pitying I dropp'd a tear ; "I am set to light the ground WH LAUGHING SONG. HEN the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by, When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it; When the meadows laugh with lively green, And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene, When Mary and Susan and Emily With their sweet round mouths sing Ha, ha, he! When the painted birds laugh in the shade, I THE SCHOOL-BOY. LOVE to rise in a summer morn When the birds sing on every tree; But to go to school in a summer morn, O! it drives all joy away; The little ones spend the day Ah! then at times I drooping sit, Worn thro' with the dreary shower. How can the bird, that is born for joy, How can a child, when fears annoy, And forget his youthful spring? O father and mother, if buds are nipp'd, And if the tender plants are stripp'd How shall the summer arise in joy, Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy, When the blasts of winter appear? ON ANOTHER'S SORROW. AN I see another's woe, CA And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? And can he who smiles on all And not sit beside the nest, |