"A SONG OF SPRING"
(Oriignal, by "Angela's mother.) * Ho! I-lo! Ho! Ho y for a cloudy sky, The skylark's singing for joy on high; The spring is here, and.summer time Is coming to us in our southern clime. Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho,; for the mountain rill, ■'■-..■ * Giirgling and rollicking- down the hill. The laughing water leads the foam Away to the sea to .find a home. Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! 'When the breeze! enchants, , ..■■;'. ' ' ! The trees, and'-makes the leaflets dance, Oh, merry are we if we join tlio throng | With happy laugh and joyful song. Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho!-.In, the even still The lambs go frolicking o'er the hill, And the mother bleats on the windswept world, ... Calling tha lambkins home to fold. Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! When! the moon is IOW, ' '' -■ :'•■■ •' ■" , ,'■ -.- Where the fairies; dance,' tho daisios grow, ' : ' Then the suu cornea peeping above the brim, And the world awakes and bows to him. ' ! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! The echoes ring, j Kature revels, for it is spring. . j 'Tis only in winter we dare be sad; ! When fairies are working wo must be j glad.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1933, Page 20
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187"A SONG OF SPRING" Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1933, Page 20
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