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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE OLD, OLD SONGS, by HENRY CROCKER
First Line: The robins and sparrows are singing
Last Line: They'll be sweet forever and aye.
First Line: The robins and sparrows are singing
Last Line: They'll be sweet forever and aye.
The robins and sparrows are singing,
Singing the same old song
They sang in the days of my childhood
When the summer hours were long.
O, the old, old songs of the woodland
Are just as sweet today,
They'll be just as sweet tomorrow,
They'll be sweet forever and aye.
O Mother, the songs of my childhood,
The songs you used to sing
To hasten the steps of the sand-man,
His bundle of dreams to bring,—
O, the old, old songs of my childhood
Are just as sweet today,
They'll be just as sweet tomorrow,
They'll be sweet forever and aye.
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