Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. [ARTICLE]

LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS.

THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF THE PAPER. Quaint Sayings and Doing* or Little Ones Gathered and Printed Hare for Other Little Folks to Head. Cradle-Song. In the garden of dreamland a flower ever grows. In form like a lily, in hue like a rose, With odor like jessamine sprinkled with dew. » And it bourgeons and blossoms, my darling, for you. Then travel, my baby, tg dreamland. Slowly rock, cradle, to carry the baby. Steadily, readily rock, and it may be. Ere she shall know It, the baby will go, Hapily smiling, to dreamland. In the garden of dreamland in summer is heard. Trilling there in the moonlight, a beautiful bird; And It sings, and it sings, all the pleasant night through. And its music, my darling. Is only for you. Then travel, my baby, to dreamland. Slowly rock, cradle, to carry the baby; Steadily, readily rock, and It may be. Ere she shall know it, the baby will go, Happily smiling, to dreamland. Tc-morrow my darling, refreshed by her rest. With the bird In her hand, and the flower on her breast. Shall return to her mother, and frolic and crow. But to-night on her journey to dreamland must go. Then travel, my baby, to dreamland, Slowly rock, cradle, to carry the baby; Steadily, readily rock, and it may be, Ere she shall know it, the baby will go, Happily smiling, to dreamland. —Thomas Dunn English, in zYouth’s Companion.