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This volume is made up of verse compiled from my Little Book of Western Verse, my Second Book of Verse, and the files of the Chicago Daily News, the Youths Companion, and the Ladies Home Journal. E. F. CHICAGO, October 25, 1892. WITH TRUMPET ND T RUM With. big tin trumpet and little red drum. Marching like soldiers, the children come It 7 s this way and that way they circle and file My but that music of theirs is fine This way and that way, and after a ivhile They march straight mto this heart of mine A sturdy old heart, but it has to succumb To the blare of that trumpet and beat of that drum Come on, tittle people, from cot and from hall This heart it hath welcome and room for you all It will sing you its songs and warm you with love y As your dear little arms with my arms intertwine It will rock you away to the dreamland above Oh, a jolly old heart is this old heart of mine, And jollier still is it bound to become When you blow that big trumpet and beat that red drum So come though I see not his dear little face And hear not Ms voice in this jubilant place, I know he were happy to bid me enshrine His memory deep in my heart with your play Ah me but a love that is sweeter than mine Holdeth my boy in its keeping to-day And my heart it is lonely so, little folk, come, March in and make merry with trumpet and drum EUGENE FIELD. Chicago, September 13, 1892. PAGE THE SUGAR-PLUM TREE i KRINKEN 4 THE NAUGHTY DOLL 7 NIGHTFALL IN DORDRECHT 10 INTRY-MINTRY 12 PlTTYPAT AND TlPPYTOE 15 BALOW, MY BONNIE 18 THE HAWTHORNE CHILDREN 20 LITTLE BLUE PIGEON Japanese Lullaby . 24 THE LYTTEL BOY 26 TEENY-WEENY . . 28 NELLIE 31 NORSE LULLABY 33 GRANDMAS PRAYER 35 SOME TIME 36 THE FIRE-HANGBIRDS NEST 38BUTTERCUP, POPPY, FORGET-ME-N OT 44. ix x CONTENTS PAGE WYNKEN, BLYNKEN, AND XGD Dntcli Lullaby 46 GOLD AND LOVE FOR DEARIE .... 49 THE PEACE OF CHRISTMAS-TIME 51 To A LITTLE BROOK . 54 CROODLiN 1 Doo 58 LITTLE MISTRESS SANS-MERCI 60 LONG AGO . 62 IN THE FIRELIGHT, 64 COBBLER AND STORK Armenian Folk-Lore 66 LOLLYBY, LOLLY, LOLLYBY . . . . 70 LIZZIE AND THE BABY J2 AT THE DOOR 74 Hrcos CHILD AT PLAY 76 HI-SPY, .. 77 LITTLE BOY BLUE 78 FATHERS LETTER So JEWISH LULLABY ... 86 OUR WHIPPINGS . 88 THE ARMENIAN MOTHER Folk-Song 93 HEIGHO, MY DEARIE 95 To A USURPER 97 THE BELL-FLOWER TREE . . 99 FAIRY AND CHILD 102 THE GRANDSIRE 104 HUSHABY, SWEET MY OWN 106 Cooing Dove. CONTENTS xi PAGE CHILD AND MOTHER 108 MEDIEVAL EVENTIDE SONG no ARMENIAN LULLABY 113 CHRISTMAS TREASURES 115 OH, LITTLE CHILD 118 GANDERFEATHERS GIFT 120 BAMBINO Sicilian Folk-Song 123 LITTLE HOMERS SLATE 125 WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM THE SUGAR-PLUM TREE HAVE you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree Tis a marvel of great renown It blooms on the shore of the Lollipop sea In the garden of Shut-Eye Town The fruit that it bears is so wondrously sweet As those who have tasted it say That good little children have only to eat Of that fruit to be happy next day. When you J ve got to the tree, you would have a hard time To capture the fruit which I sing The tree is so tall that no person could climb To the boughs where the sugar-plums swing 2 THE SUGAR-PLUM TREE But up In that tree sits a chocolate cat, And a gingerbread dog prowls below And this is the way you contrive to get at Those sugar-plums tempting you so You say but the word to that gingerbread dog And he barks with such terrible zest That the chocolate cat is at once all agog, Asher swelling proportions attest. And the chocolate cat goes cavorting around From this leafy limb unto that, And the sugar-plums tumble, of course, to the ground Hurrah for that chocolate cat There are marshmallows, gumdrops, and pep permint canes 7 With stripings of scarlet or gold, And you carry away of the treasure that rains As much as your apron can hold
