. Dramatic games and dances for little children. in education, is that we teachers are blinder than those we attemptto guide. And what is this suggestion, and what does it lead into? If anything worth while,some day it ought to carry us over in thought and feeling to those fireflies of the imagina-tion, those fairies that go,— 51 Over hill, over daleThrough bush, through briar,Over park, over pale,Through flood, through fire,I do wander everywhereSwifter than the moons sphere;And I serve the fairy queen,To dew her orbs upon the green. Shakespeare. To force such a suggestion of which this is on


. Dramatic games and dances for little children. in education, is that we teachers are blinder than those we attemptto guide. And what is this suggestion, and what does it lead into? If anything worth while,some day it ought to carry us over in thought and feeling to those fireflies of the imagina-tion, those fairies that go,— 51 Over hill, over daleThrough bush, through briar,Over park, over pale,Through flood, through fire,I do wander everywhereSwifter than the moons sphere;And I serve the fairy queen,To dew her orbs upon the green. Shakespeare. To force such a suggestion of which this is only a germ, upon the little child, or toteach the dance in the formal gymnastic fashion, would reveal the teacher as blind tothe thoughts, feelings and actions of little children. FIREFLY DANCE. -. Allegro. 0 Elizabeth Rose g=—- 3Z f> » »- -8 -w—*~V sSliZfci m^-^ ^£=1 -far. far- +-P- :£z*=i: -0-jr r^^^ ^f-y-^- s-nH*- -*-+- ±+ b— 1- 10 fczi&S 12 13 §^3==|e= d—i—**- w i+: -*—*-*- ±±z M-* -*- m 3+5: I 15 16. 17 18 19 20 sk^pl^ggs <n Iiitard - an - do. j)j) :*=*=* *—*- ^H *?—?-4-? ?—*? -f—f f—* II Copyright, 1914, by The A. S. Baisnks Company. 52 LULLABY FROM HIAWATHA. Ewa-yea! my little owlet! Ewa-yea! my little one! Who is this that lights the wigwam? With his great eyes lights the wigwam? Ewa-yea! Ewa-yea! my little one! The lullaby is given in two keys; as the lower key seemed better fitted to express theIndian quality. The melody has been written in a higher key in case the first is thoughttoo low for childrens voices. 53 LULLABY. Elizabeth Rose


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