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ARBOR DA Y MAD UAL. 
GREEN THINGS GROWING. 
CONCERT RECITATION FOR A CLASS OF BOYS OR GIRLS, OR BOTH. 
All: 
O H ! 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 I 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! 
1 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.” 11 
Byron’s ^Apostrophe to the Ocean."' 
