THE CHILDREN IN THE STREETS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 26 September 1891, Page 411

THE CHILDREN IN THE STREETS.

The sweetest sounds in the city wide Are those when the children shout and call In the hollow streets at eventide, When the mellow western shadows fall ; They run ami they jump, They tumble and bump, In the sounding streets in the evening time. Many a time I have tripped over Tot, And broken my shins over Jacks and Jims ; But I went on my way and heeded it not, For the laugh of a child is the sweetest of hymns ; They scream and they shout, And they scamper about, In the joyous streets in the evening time. But growlers that growl and bachelors oi l. Cry out at the game and object to the din ; They snarl and complain, they croak and they scold, At the child who plays in the streets—it’s a sin, Let them tumble and leap, Like wee, wee sheep, In the sounding streets of the evening time.