A MIDSUMMER SONG.
Richard Watson Gilder. Franz Abt.
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Allegretto.
1. Oh fa - thers gone to mark - et-town he was up be - fore the day,
2. From all the mist-y morn-ing air there comes a - sum - mer sound,
3. A - bove the trees the hon - ey bees swarm by with buzz and boom. 4. How strange at such a time of day the mill should stop its clatter!
And Ja-mie's aft - er rob - ins, and the man is mak -ing hay,
A murmur as of wa - ters, from skies and trees and ground.
And in the field and gar - den a thousand bios - soms bloom;
The farm-er's wife is listen-ing now, and won-ders what's the matter.
And whistling down the hol - low goes the boy who minds the mill,
The birds they sing up - on the wing, the pig- eons bill and coo;
"Within the far-mer's mead - ow, a brown-eyed dais - y blows.
Oh, wild the birds are sing - ing in the wood and on the hill.
While moth - er from the kitchen door is call - ing with a will
And o - ver hill an hol - low rings a-gain the loud hal - loo:
And down at the edge of the hol - low a red and thorn- y rose.
While whist - ling up the hol - low goes the boy that minds the mill.
