The Infant’s Delight – 02

THE MAY-POLE.

Round the May-pole, on the grass,
Mer-ry lit-tle foot-steps pass;
In the mid-dle Bes-sie stands,
With the May-pole in her hands;
While her play-mates dance and sing
Round her in an end-less ring.
Soon, in-deed, a feast they’ll make,
Cow-slip tea, with nice plum-cake—
And so our leave of them we’ll take.

THE FIRST OF MAY.

The haw-thorn blos-som, snow-y white,
Hangs thick upon the hedge to-day;
With many flow-ers the fields are bright
Upon this mer-ry First of May.

So let us ga-ther flow-er-ets fair,
And blos-soms from the haw-thorn spray,
To deck our May-pole stand-ing there,
Upon this mer-ry First of May.

And then, like fai-ries, in a ring,
A-round it we will dance or play,
And all our glad-dest songs will sing
Upon this mer-ry First of May.

And dear-est Maud shall there be seen
With crown of haw-thorn blos-soms gay,
And she shall be our lit-tle queen,
Upon this mer-ry First of May.

UNI-VER-SAL PRAISE.

See how na-ture now re-joices
In this sun-ny month of May;
Still to God from all its voices
Giv-ing prais-es day by day.
In the glad green wood-land al-leys
Ev-e-ry bird its an-them trills!
While flocks feed-ing in the val-leys,
Herds up-on a thou-sand hills,
Join with ev-ery crea-ture liv-ing,
Here on land, in air, or sea,
In one great world-wide thanks-giv-ing,
Yield-ing praise, O God, to Thee!
All a-round us swells the cho-rus
From this good-ly world of ours,
And earth’s al-tar stands be-fore us
Sweet with in-cense from her flow-ers.
So, with Na-ture still con-fess-ing
His great good-ness, let us pay
Grate-ful hom-age for each bless-ing
Of this sun-ny month of May.

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1. THE MAY-POLE.
2. THE FIRST OF MAY.
3. UNIVERSAL PRAISE.
4. THE DANDELION CLOCK.
5. TAKING CARE OF BABY.
6. SUMMER FLOWERS.
7. “WHERE’S DICKEY?”
8. PLAYING AT OMNI-BUS.
9. GATHERING POPPIES.
10. ON THE WATER.
11. HURTFUL WEEDS.
12. THE BUTTERFLY.
13. “GO AWAY, ROVER!”
14. THE RUSH PARASOL.
15. LUCY AND ARTHUR.
16. THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD.
17. PLAYING AMONG THE SHEAVES.

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