64 ARBOR DA Y MANUAL. 



GREEN THINGS GROWING. 



CONCERT RECITATION FOR A CLASS OF BOYS OR GIRLS, OR BOTH. 



ALL : 



OH ! the green things growing ! the green things growing ! 

 The fresh, sweet smell of the green things growing ! 

 FRANK : 



I would like to live, whether I laugh or grieve, 



To watch the happy life of the green things growing. 



ALL: 



Oh ! the fluttering and pattering of the green things growing !' 



Talking each to each when no man's knowing; 

 CHARLES : 



In the wonderful white of the weird moonlight, 



Or the gray dreamy dawn when the cocks are crowing. 



MARTHA : 



I love, I love them so, the green things growing 

 And I think that they love me without false showing; 

 For by many a tender touch they comfort me so much, 

 With the mute, mute comfort of green things growing. 



MABEL: 



And in the full wealth of their blossoms' glowing, 



Ten for one 1 take they're on me bestowing. 

 EMILY : 



Ah ! I should like to see, if God's will it might be, 



Many, many a summer of my green things growing. 



ADA : 



But if I must be gathered for the angels' sowing 

 Sleep out of sight awhile like the green things growing; 

 Though earth to earth return, I think I shall not mourn, 

 If I may change into green things growing. 



ALL : 



Oh ! the green things growing: the green things growing ! 



The fresh, sweet smell of the green things growing! 



I would like to live, whether I laugh or grieve, 



To watch the happy life of the green things growing. 



Arranged by Principal CHAS. H. FULLER, 



Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. 



"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods." 



BYRON'S "Apostrophe to the Ocean." 



