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specimen Programs. Port Henry, X. Y. Continued. 



3. SONG. * " Arbor Day March." Ten Pupils from 2nd Primary Department. 



These pupils each had a flag about seventeen inches long. They sang the first stanza and 

 chorus as they marched on the stage from an adjoining room. During the singing of the 

 first two lines of the chorus they waved their flags in unison with their singing. During 

 the rest of the singing and marching they kept the flags at right shoulder shift. After 

 reciting the following selection, they sang the second stanza, and marched off the stage 

 as they were singing the chorus. 



CONCERT RECITATION BY THE SAME TEX PUPILS; "OUR ARBOR DAY IX MAY/' 



All the buds and bees are singing ; 

 Ali the lily bells are ringing; 

 All the brooks run full of laughter. 

 And the wind comes whispering after. 

 What is this they sing and say ? 

 " It is May ! 



It is our Arbor Day ! 



Hurrah ! hurrah for our Arbor Day !" 



Look, dear children, look ! the meadows, 

 When the sunshine chases shadows 

 Are alive with fairv faces, 

 Peeping from their grassy places 

 What is this the flowers sav ? 

 " It is May ! 



It is our' Arbor Day '. 



Hurrah! hurrah for our Arbor Day !" 



See ! the fair blue sky is brighter, 

 And our hearts with hope are lighter; 

 All the bells of joy are ringing ; 

 All are grateful voices singing ; 

 All the storms have passed away ; 

 " It is May ! 



It is our" Arbor Day ! 



Hurrah ! hurrah for our Arbor Dav ! " 



When the children recited the last line of each stanza, they waved their flags in an ap- 

 propriate manner. In this exercise the children marched as they sang, without any organ 

 accompaniment. In the following exercises the pupils marched to the music of the organ. 



4. THE PLEA OF THE TREES. Ten Pupils of 1st Primary Department. 



Concert Recitation : 



And now in the forest the woodman doth stand. 

 His eve marks the victims to fall bv his hand. 

 And all the trees shiver and tremble for fear. 



Fourth. Pupil. THE OAK. 



T ._ tk . ... , - , .. 

 am **<"*> the king of the trees, 



first Pupil. THE BEECH. 



Oh, leave this barren spot to me ! 

 Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree ! 

 Thrice twenty summers I have seen 

 The sky grow bright, the foiest green ; 

 And many a wintry wind have stood 

 In bloomless, fruitless solitude, 

 Since childhood in my pleasant bower 

 First spent its sweet and sportive hour. 

 And on my trunk s surviving frame 

 Carved many a long forgotten name. 

 As love s own altar honors me. 

 Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree. 



Second Pupil. THE MAPLE. 



If nworto id know ; 



For wide'and deep 



Is the shade I keep. 

 Where coolin? breezes blow. 



Third Pupil. THE HICKORY. 

 When the autumn comes its round, 

 Rich, sweet walnuts will be found 

 Covering thickly ail the ground 

 W here my boughs are spread. 



Ask the boys that visit me, 

 Full of happiness and glee. 

 If they'd mourn the hickory tree. 

 Were "it felled and dead. 



Supreme in state ; and in three more decay. 



Fifth Pupil. THE ELM. 



Each morning when thy waking eyes first see 

 Through the wreathed lattice, golden day appear 

 Here sits the robin, on the old elm tree 

 And with such stirring music fills the ear 

 Thou mightst forget that life had pain or fear, 

 And feel again as thou wast wont to do [new 

 When hope was young and joy and life itself were 



Sixtk Pupil. THE HEMLOCK. 

 , , m ., L^.^I, 



. . . 

 I shake the snow on the ground below, 



Where the flowers safely sleep; 

 waf ch 



"* ***- THE 



i am the willow. 



Listen ! in my breezy moan 



i ou "? near an undertone : 



Through my leaves come whispering low 



Faint, sweet sounds of long ago. 



Manv a mournfu i Me of old 



Heartsick man to me has told ; 



Gathering from mv golden bough 



Leaves ^ his b ^ ramg brow \ 



Many a swan like song to me 

 Hath been chanted mournfully ; 

 Many a lute its last lament 

 Down my moonlight stream hath sent. 



