Lullaby-Land: Songs of Childhood — Hi-Spy, Little Boy Blue, Heigho, my Dearie, Fairy and Child, Child and Mother, Ganderfeather’s Gift, Telling the Bees, Contentment

[Illustration: HI-SPY.

] Strange that the city thoroughfare, Noisy and bustling all the day, Should with the night renounce its care And lend itself to children’s play!

Oh, girls are girls, and boys are boys, And have been so since Abel’s birth, And shall be so till dolls and toys Are with the children swept from earth.

The selfsame sport that crowns the day Of many a Syrian shepherd’s son, Beguiles the little lads at play By night in stately Babylon.

I hear their voices in the street, Yet ’tis so different now from then!

Come, brother!

from your winding-sheet, And let us two be boys again!

[Illustration] [Illustration: Little Boy Blue.

] [Illustration] [Illustration: LITTLE BOY BLUE.

] The little toy dog is covered with dust, But sturdy and stanch he stands;

And the little toy soldier is red with rust, And the musket moulds in his hands.

Time was when the little toy dog was new, And the soldier was passing fair;

And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue Kissed them and put them there.

“Now, don’t you go till I come,” he said, “And don’t you make any noise!

” So, toddling off to his trundle-bed, He dreamt of the pretty toys;

And, as he was dreaming, an angel song Awakened our Little Boy Blue-- Oh!

the years are many, the years are long, But the little toy friends are true!

Aye, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand, Each in the same old place-- Awaiting the touch of a little hand, The smile of a little face;

[Illustration] And they wonder, as waiting the long years through In the dust of that little chair, What has become of our Little Boy Blue, Since he kissed them and put them there.

[Illustration] [Illustration: Heigho, My Dearie] [Illustration] [Illustration: HEIGHO, MY

DEARIE]

A moonbeam floateth from the skies, Whispering: “Heigho, my dearie;

I would spin a web before your eyes-- A beautiful web of silver light Wherein is many a wondrous sight Of a radiant garden leagues away, Where the softly tinkling lilies sway And the snow-white lambkins are at play-- Heigho, my dearie!

” A brownie stealeth from the vine, Singing: “Heigho, my dearie;

And will you hear this song of mine-- A song of the land of murk and mist Where bideth the bud the dew hath kist?

Then let the moonbeam’s web of light Be spun before thee silvery white, And I shall sing the livelong night-- Heigho, my dearie!

” The night wind speedeth from the sea, Murmuring: “Heigho, my dearie;

I bring a mariner’s prayer for thee;

So let the moonbeam veil thine eyes, And the brownie sing thee lullabies-- But I shall rock thee to and fro, Kissing the brow _he_ loveth so.

And the prayer shall guard thy bed, I trow-- Heigho, my dearie!

” [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: Fairy and Child.

] [Illustration] [Illustration: FAIRY AND

CHILD.

] Oh, listen, little Dear-My-Soul, To the fairy voices calling, For the moon is high in the misty sky And the honey dew is falling;

To the midnight feast in the clover bloom The bluebells are a-ringing, And it’s “Come away to the land of fay” That the katydid is singing.

Oh, slumber, little Dear-My-Soul, And hand in hand we’ll wander-- Hand in hand to the beautiful land Of Balow, away off yonder;

Or we’ll sail along in a lily leaf Into the white moon’s halo-- Over a stream of mist and dream Into the land of Balow.

Or, you shall have two beautiful wings-- Two gossamer wings and airy, And all the while shall the old moon smile And think you a little fairy;

[Illustration: “INTO THE WHITE MOON’S HALO”] And you shall dance in the velvet sky, And the silvery stars shall twinkle And dream sweet dreams as over their beams Your footfalls softly tinkle.

[Illustration] [Illustration: Child and Mother.

] [Illustration] [Illustration: CHILD AND MOTHER.

] O mother-my-love, if you’ll give me your hand, And go where I ask you to wander, I will lead you away to a beautiful land-- The Dreamland that’s waiting out yonder.

We’ll walk in a sweet-posie garden out there, Where moonlight and starlight are streaming, And the flowers and the birds are filling the air With the fragrance and music of dreaming.

There’ll be no little tired-out boy to undress, No questions or cares to perplex you;

There’ll be no little bruises or bumps to caress, Nor patching of stockings to vex you.

For I’ll rock you away on a silver-dew stream, And sing you asleep when you’re weary, And no one shall know of our beautiful dream, But you and your own little dearie.

And when I am tired I’ll nestle my head In the bosom that’s soothed me so often, And the wide-awake stars shall sing in my stead A song which our dreaming shall soften.

So, Mother-My-Love, let me take your dear hand, And away through the starlight we’ll wander-- Away through the mist to the beautiful land-- The Dreamland that’s waiting out yonder.

[Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: Ganderfeather’s Gift.

] [Illustration] [Illustration: GANDERFEATHER’S GIFT.

] I was just a little thing When a fairy came and kissed me;

Floating in upon the light Of a haunted summer night, Lo, the fairies came to sing Pretty slumber songs and bring Certain boons that else had missed me.

From a dream I turned to see What those strangers brought for me, When that fairy up and kissed me-- Here, upon this cheek, he kissed me!

Simmerdew was there, but she Did not like me altogether;

Daisybright and Turtledove, Pilfercurds and Honeylove, Thistleblow and Amberglee On that gleaming, ghostly sea Floated from the misty heather, And around my trundle-bed Frisked, and looked, and whispering said-- Solemnlike and all together: “_You_ shall kiss him, Ganderfeather!

” Ganderfeather kissed me then-- Ganderfeather, quaint and merry!

[Illustration] No attenuate sprite was he, --But as buxom as could be;-- Kissed me twice, and once again, And the others shouted when On my cheek uprose a berry Somewhat like a mole, mayhap, But the kiss-mark of that chap Ganderfeather, passing merry-- Humorsome, but kindly, very!

[Illustration] I was just a tiny thing When the prankish Ganderfeather Brought this curious gift to me With his fairy kisses three;

Yet with honest pride I sing That same gift he chose to bring Out of yonder haunted heather.

Other charms and friendships fly-- Constant friends this mole and I, Who have been so long together.

Thank you, little Ganderfeather!

[Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: FROM THE SECOND BOOK OF VERSE] [Illustration] [Illustration: Telling the Bees] [Illustration] [Illustration: TELLING THE BEES.

] Out of the house where the slumberer lay Grandfather came one summer day, And under the pleasant orchard trees He spake this wise to the murmuring bees: “The clover-bloom that kissed her feet And the posie-bed where she used to play, Have honey store, but none so sweet As ere our little one went away.

O bees, sing soft, and, bees, sing low;

For she is gone who loved you so.

” A wonder fell on the listening bees Under those pleasant orchard trees, And in their toil that summer day Ever their murmuring seemed to say: “Child, O child, the grass is cool, And the posies are waking to hear the song Of the bird that swings by the shaded pool, Waiting for one that tarrieth long.

” ’Twas so they called to the little one then, As if to call her back again.

O gentle bees, I have come to say That grandfather fell asleep to-day, And we know by the smile on grandfather’s face He has found his dear one’s biding-place.

So, bees, sing soft, and, bees, sing low, As over the honey-fields you sweep-- To the trees abloom and the flowers ablow Sing of grandfather fast asleep;

And ever beneath these orchard trees Find cheer and shelter, gentle bees.

[Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: FROM ‘THE LONESOME LITTLE SHoE’] [Illustration] [Illustration: Contentment.

] [Illustration] [Illustration: CONTENTMENT.

] Once on a time an old red hen Went strutting round with pompous clucks, For she had little babies ten, A part of which were tiny ducks.

“’Tis very rare that hens,” said she, “Have baby ducks as well as chicks-- But I possess, as you can see, Of chickens four and ducklings six!

” A season later, this old hen Appeared, still cackling of her luck, For, though she boasted babies ten, Not one among them was a duck!

“’Tis well,” she murmured, brooding o’er The little chicks of fleecy down, “My babies now will stay ashore, And, consequently, cannot drown!

” [Illustration] The following spring the old red hen Clucked just as proudly as of yore.

-- But lo!

her babes were ducklings ten, Instead of chickens as before!

“’Tis better,” said the old red hen, As she surveyed her waddling brood;

“A little water now and then Will surely do my darlings good!

” But, oh!

alas, how very sad!

When gentle spring rolled round again, The eggs eventuated bad, And childless was the old red hen!

Yet patiently she bore her woe, And still she wore a cheerful air, And said: “’Tis best these things are so For babies are a dreadful care!

” I half suspect that many men, And many, many women, too, Could learn a lesson from the hen With foliage of vermilion hue.

She ne’er presumed to take offence At any fate that might befall, But meekly bowed to Providence.

-- She was contented--that was all!

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