Our Children's Songs With Illustrations

200 Children's Song Lyrics, incuding Christian Hymns - online songbook

	SONGS FOR THE NURSERY.		19
	Rumbling, tumbling all about, Crowing like a cock, Screaming like, I don't know what, Waking sleeping folk. "Hey! Willie Winkie, Can't you keep him still? Wriggling off a body's knee Like a very eel; Pulling at the cat's ear As she drowsy hums; Hey, Willie Winkie! See ! there he comes!" Wearied is the mother That has a restless wean, A wee, stumpy bairnie, Heard whene'er he's seen. That has a battle aye with sleep Before he'll close an e'e; But a kiss from off his rosy lips Gives strength anew to me.	A SLEEPING CHILD. Arthur Hugh Clough. Lips, lips, open! Up comes a little bird that lives inside, Up comes a little bird and peeps, and out he flies. All the day he sits inside, and sometimes he sings; Up he comes, and out he goes at night to spread his wiugs. Little bird, little bird, whither will you go ? Round about the world while nobody can know. Little bird, little bird, whither do you flee ? Far away round the world while nobody can see. Little bird, little bird, how long will you roam ? All round the world and around again home. Round the round world, and back through the air; When the morning comes, the little bird is there.