CHILDREN'S VOICES
Children's voices ! Children's voices ! How I love to hear them nigh ; Shouting, singing, laughter flinging To the beaming summer sky ! Children's voices ! Children's voices 1 Blending oft with birds' and bees' ; Sunshine, flowers, woodland bowers, Pictured in their melodies. Children's voices ! Children's voices ! Bringing back the careless day ; When my giddy brain was busy, Only with my toys and play. Children's voices ! Children's voices ! Hark ! the shout as from the school Boys are tearing with the daring, Born of freedom's jocund rule. Children's voices ! Children's voicec I What so innocently wild? 'Twas to leaven earth with heaven God breathed music in the child. Children's voices ! Children's voice? ' Blent in choral hymns of praist , How they lift us, how they sift us, From the dust of failing days. Children's voices ! Children's voices ! One there is I cannot bear ; Through my brain it steals to pain it, Dreaming in my elbow chair. Children's voices ! Children's voices ! Strain so tender, sweet, and true ; Lark and linnet may begin it — Angels only sing it through ! ___TT J T> Auckland, 1902.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2545, 24 December 1902, Page 28 (Supplement)
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178CHILDREN'S VOICES Otago Witness, Issue 2545, 24 December 1902, Page 28 (Supplement)
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