THE POET AND THE CHILDREN.
John Greenleaf Whittier. Ferdinand Gumbert.
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1. With a glo - ry of win - ter sun - shine
2. It came from his own fair cit - y From the
3. The lays of his life's glad morn - ing, The
4. With a sense of awe he list - ened To the
O - ver his locks of gray, In the old his - tor - ic
prai - rie's bound - less plain, From the Gold - en Gate of
psalms of his eve - ning time. Whose ech - oes shall float for-
voi - ces sweet and young; The last of earth and the
man - sion, He sat, on his last birth-day ; (Bass) With his
sun - set. And the ce - darn woods of Maine. (Bass) And his
ev - er On the winds of ev - 'ry clime. (Bass) All their
first of heav'n Seem'd in the songs they sung. (Bass) And
(Sop.) 1. With his books and his pleas - ant pic - tures, And his
(Sop.) 2. And his heart grew warm with - in him, And his
(Sop.) 3. All their beau - ti - ful con - so - la - tions Sent
(Sop.) 4. And wait - ing a lit - tle long - er For the
books and his pleas - ant pic - tures, And his house - hold and his
heart grew warm with - in him, And his moist - 'ning eyes grew
beau - ti - ful con - so - la - tions, Sent forth like birds of
wait - ing a lit - tle long-er For the wonder-ful change to
