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LONGFELLOW DAY.

FEBRUARY TWENTY-SEVEN.

(All the selections except the first song are from the pen of Longfellow.)

Singing by School—Here’s Where The Scholars do their Best. (In Song Knapsack.)

Recitation—The Poet and His Songs.

Essay—(Subject to be selected from list given.)

Recitation—The Children’s Hour.

Song—The Fatherland.here

Recitation—Nature’s Book.

Recitation—The Two Angels.

Recitation—The Old Clock on The Stairs.

Concert Exercise—Ship of State.

Reading or Recitation—Paul Revere’s Ride.

Song—The Rainy Dayhere.

Recitation—From My Arm-Chair.

Recitation—The Builders.

Reading or Song—The Bridge.^[1]

QUOTATIONS BY SCHOOL.

Song—To Stay at Home is Best.here

1. This selection is set to music in Riverside Song Book, and all the songs mentioned above may be found the same.

Note.—The larger schools may be glad to make use of H., M. & Co’s dramatized form of “ Miles Standish,” which has been arranged for school exhibitions.

 

THE POET AND HIS SONGS.

As the birds come in the spring,
We know not from where;
As the stars come at evening
From depths of the air;

As the rain comes from the cloud.
And the brook from the ground;
As suddenly, low or loud.
Out of silence a sound;

As the grape comes to the vine.
The fruit to the tree;
As the wind comes to the pine,
And the tide to the sea;

As come the white sails of ships
O’er the ocean’s verge;
As comes the smile to the lips,
The foam to the surge;

So come to the Poet his songs,
All hitherward blown
From the misty realm that belongs-
To the vast Unknown.

His, and not his, are the lays
He sings; and their fame
Is his, and not his; and the praise
And the pride of a name.

For voices pursue him by day
And haunt him by night.
And he listens and needs must obey.
When the Angel says: “ Write!”

 

SUBJECTS FOR ESSAY.

Longfellow’s Travels.
The Homes of Longfellow.
Longfellow’s Works.
Evangeline’s Sad Quest.
The Poet’s Sorrow.
Mission of The Poet.