. Home songs for little people . Wounded now and helpless, on that rugged plainSank the little drummer, neer to rise again. Happy little Charley I Not a sign of fearMarked his youthful features as his end drewnear. Death had found him waiting with his armor on ;Soon the strife was ended and the victory won. Through each weary conflict Christ was over nigh,Happy little drummer, fit to live or die. HOME SONGS. 197. THE AFTERNOON NAP. THE farmer sat in liis easy-chair Smoking his pipe of clay,While his hale old v ife, with busy care, Was clearing the dinner away;A sweet little girl with fine blue
. Home songs for little people . Wounded now and helpless, on that rugged plainSank the little drummer, neer to rise again. Happy little Charley I Not a sign of fearMarked his youthful features as his end drewnear. Death had found him waiting with his armor on ;Soon the strife was ended and the victory won. Through each weary conflict Christ was over nigh,Happy little drummer, fit to live or die. HOME SONGS. 197. THE AFTERNOON NAP. THE farmer sat in liis easy-chair Smoking his pipe of clay,While his hale old v ife, with busy care, Was clearing the dinner away;A sweet little girl with fine blue eyesOn her grandfathers knee was catchingflies. 17* 198 HOME SONGS. The old man laid his hand on her head,With a tear on his wrinkled face; He thought how often her mother, dead,Had sat in the self-same place; And the tear stole down from his half-shut Do nt smoke ! said the child, how it makesyou cry! The house-dog lay stretched out on the floorWhere the shade, after noon, used tosteal; The busy old wife by the open doorWas turning the spinning-wheel; And the old brass clock on the mantel-treeHad plodded along to almost three. Still the farmer sat in his easy-chair,While close to his heaving breast, The moistened brow and the cheek so fairOf his sweet grandchild were pressed; His head bent down on her soft hair lay, Fast asleep were they both that summerday. HOME SONGS. 199 HE THy\T RUJLETH HI3 gPIFflT.
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