254 ARBOR DAY MANUAL. 



Written for the " ARBOR DAY MANUAL." 



SHUT YOUR CATTLE IN. 



THE following directions are suggested by the author : To be recited by a 

 boy or girl. The instant the last line is said, have a chorus of voices, or 

 all the parts at least sing the little song, and as they pass off let each part sing 

 out loud and prompt " Shut 'em in ! " then let an echo in the school-house take 

 it up and continue until )^ou can only faintly hear it. Then let the whole 

 school break out with " Oh shut your Cattle in ! " 



Ye herds that haunt the country ways, 



Ye lowing kine with threatening horns, 

 E'en birds abruptly cease their lays, 



And leave their nests among the thorns 

 Where'er ye tread, with reckless hoof, 



While bleeding bloom its fragrance sheds, 



And violets tremble in their beds, 

 And frightened children stand aloof. 

 E'en struggling maples browsed and gnawed, 

 By your dread presence over-awed; 

 For mercy cry with every breeze. 

 Ye heed them not. God pity these ! 

 With love deep-rooted thus to die, 

 While wealth unfolded e'en must lie 

 All dormant, till the kindly earth 

 Unto some other life gives birth, 

 Only to be crushed and bleed 

 A victim to the farmer's greed. 



SONG: 



The farmer's greed is the farmer's sin; 

 Please shut your cattle in my friend, 

 And let the clovers bob 1 and bend, 

 Oh shut your cattle in, 

 And thus our praises win, 

 Oh shut your cattle in. 

 Shut 'em in ! shut 'em in ! 

 St. Augustine, Fla. MRS. B. C. RUDE. 



Hence, let me haste unto the mid-wood shade, 

 Where scarce a sunbeam wanders through the gloom, 

 And on the dark green grass, beside the brink 

 Of haunted stream, that by the roots of oak 

 Rolls o'er the rocky channel, lie at large. 



THOMSON. 



