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SCHOOL RHYMES FOR NEGRO CHILDREN.

1 HOW happy are we in that hour we love,
2 When shadows grow longer and branches move;
3 Blithe urchins then we be!
4 From the school's low porch with a joyous shout,
5 We rush and we run and we gambol about,
6 So careless, light and free!
7 And the good child merrily plays his part,
8 For all is well in his guileless heart,
9 The glance of his eye is bright.
10 We hop and we leap and we toss the ball;
11 Some dance to their shadows upon the wall,
12 And spread out their hands with delight.
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13 The parrot that sits on her bough a-swinging,
14 The bird and the butterfly, light air winging,
15 Are scarcely more happy, I trow.
16 Then hey for the meadow, the glade and the grove,
17 For evening is coming and branches move,
18 We'll have merry pastime now.

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Title (in Source Edition): SCHOOL RHYMES FOR NEGRO CHILDREN.
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Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Fugitive Verses. By Joanna Baillie, author of “Dramas on the Passions,“ etc. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXL., 1840, pp. 201-202.  (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [40.17].)

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