. St. Nicholas book of plays & operettas . THE SUN. THE SOARING LARK. She gat her to her daily task, As on the former morn;Alack! she spied not Benjamin A-hoeing of the corn. [Enter Mary Jane. No longer, as she trips along, Her merry songs she sings;The tear-drops dim her pretty eyes, Her lily hands she wrings. V *— And art thou gone, sweet Benjamin? Ah ! whither hast thou fled ?My spelling-book has charms no more; I would that I were dead ! But soon her bitter moan she ceased; She viewed her doughty knight,Delayed not many leagues from thence, And in most grievous plight. 6 ST. NICHOLAS PLAYS
. St. Nicholas book of plays & operettas . THE SUN. THE SOARING LARK. She gat her to her daily task, As on the former morn;Alack! she spied not Benjamin A-hoeing of the corn. [Enter Mary Jane. No longer, as she trips along, Her merry songs she sings;The tear-drops dim her pretty eyes, Her lily hands she wrings. V *— And art thou gone, sweet Benjamin? Ah ! whither hast thou fled ?My spelling-book has charms no more; I would that I were dead ! But soon her bitter moan she ceased; She viewed her doughty knight,Delayed not many leagues from thence, And in most grievous plight. 6 ST. NICHOLAS PLAYS AND OPERETTAS For as he to his husbandry That day would fain have passed, A monster cow his path beset,And sorely him THE COW HARASSES BENJAMIN. Upon the summit of a wall He sits, and dares not flee;The awful beast its sprangling horns Doth brandish frightfully. [The cow, made of pasteboard, should befastened to a broom-handle, and poked infrom one side. The smaller the cow thebetter. Oh, Mary Jane ! he cried, if you But love me, do not stayTo weep, but lend a friendly hand, And drive the cow away ! Her apron then she quickly takes, And wipes her streaming eyes;Not quicker melts the morning dew Than to her love she flies. THE BALLAD OF MARY JANE The monster turns at her approach, It shakes its ample tail;Take heart, O Benjamin! thy love Will neither quake nor quail.
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