A SUMMER CALL.

GIRLS and boys, come out to play,
Trees are green and fields are gay,
While little birds carol on every spray-
Girls and boys, come out to play.

Leave your slates, and close your books,
Come explore my pleasant nooks,

And see your shadows in mirroring brooks--
Girls and boys, come out to play.

Tread the springy sward again,
Gather hawthorn down the lane,
And link the delicate daisy chain—
Girls and boys come out to play.

Come in quest of violets rare,
Twine the primrose in your hair,
And seek for the hyacinth fresh and fair—
Girls and boys, come out to play.

Heed-oh, heed my loving call!

Fly the city's frowning wall,

I've a kiss for the cheek of one and all-
Shall bring the roses into play.

Be

ye

rich or be ye poor,

Child of gentle, or child of poor,

Alike to you do I open my store,

"So gather your May buds while you may."

JOHN G. WATTS.

THE PRIMROSE.

THE milk-white blossoms of the thorn, Are waving o'er the pool,

Moved by the wind that breathes along So sweetly and so cool.

The hawthorn clusters bloom above,
The primrose hides below,

And on the lonely passer-by

A modest glance doth throw!

The humble primrose's bonny face
I meet it everywhere;

Where other flowers disdain to bloom,

It comes and nestles there.

Like God's own light, on every place

In glory it doth fall;

And where its dwelling-place is made, It straightway hallows all!

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