ARBOR DA Y MANUAL. 
4 °f 
IF EVER I SEE. 
Childhood Songs. 
1. If ev - er I see, On bush or tree, Young birds in a pret - ty nest, 
2. My moth-er, I know, Would sor - row so. Should I be sto - len a - way: 
3. And when they can fly, In the bright blue sky They’ll war - ble a song to me; 
I must not, in my play, Steal the birds a - way, To grieve their moth-er’s breast. 
So I’ll speak to the birds In my soft - est words, Nor hurt them in my play. 
And then if I’m sad, It will make me so glad, To think they are hap-py and free. 
From “ Franklin Square Song Collection. No. 4.” By Courteay of Messrs. Harper & Brothers. 
A SPRING SONG. 
English. 
