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MAY 



JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT 



Jack-in-the-Pulpit preaches surplice 

 sermon text expound discuss 



Jack-in-the-Pulpit 

 Preaches to-day, 



Under the green trees 

 Just over the way. 



Green is his surplice, 

 Green are his bands; 

 In his queer little pulpit 

 The little priest stands. 



So much for the preacher 

 The sermon comes next. 



Shall we tell how he preached it, 

 And where was his text ? 



We heard not the preacher 



Expound or discuss ; 

 But we looked at the people 



And they looked at us. 



We heard the wind organ, 

 The bee and the bird 



But of Jack-in-the-Pulpit 

 We heard not a word. 



Adapted from Whittier's Child Life. CLARA SMITH. 



