THE MUSICAL SPRITES.
THE Musical Fairies are queer little sprites
Who teach Nature’s children to sing.
Their lessons are held where the pupils abide,
And the classes are formed in a ring.
Some teach the young birds all their beautiful songs
In a school-room high up in the trees;
While a few show the chirp of the crickets and bugs,
Others teaching the hum of the bees.
In the bushes are teachers who spend all their time
Instructing young partridge and quails;
And a dozen young sprites teaching squirrels to squeak
Hold their classes on stone walls and rails.
There are school-rooms in barn-yards for chickens and ducks
(With departments for kittens and dogs),
While the frog-teacher drills his young singers all day
From a stump in the midst of the bogs.
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