Transcriber's Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.
With the exception of the verses set to music and the index, the body of this book is entirely illustration. The plain text of the verses is appended at the end of the volume. Links to the particular verse are provided at the bottom of each page.
Songs for the Little Ones
at Home
Songs for the Little
Ones at Home
REVISED EDITION
350th Thousand
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY
150 Nassau Street, New York
Copyright, 1884 and 1911, by
American Tract Society
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Heart and Hearthstone | [7] |
| Hour by Hour | [47] |
| Little Poor Relations | [81] |
| The Great Outdoors | [135] |
| On Earth as in Heaven | [175] |
| The Christ Child | [219] |
| Heroes and Patriots | [231] |
| Index | [253] |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
HEART AND HEARTHSTONE
THE FATHER’S WILL
Air, with bass accompaniment
1. How sweet the home of Nazareth Where Mary mother smiled,
And flow’rs of daily duty bloom’d About the holy Child.
His Father’s will was all His task Within that earthly home,
That will for ever done in Heav’n Whence He so late had come.
2. Obedient, gentle, loving, meek, He worked at Joseph’s side;
Does nothing from that daily toil Thro’ all the years abide?
We scan the wide world o’er, nor find. In any clime or land,
One single, sacred, treasured thing Wrought out by Jesus’ hand.
3. But wheresoe’er a Christian child Does on the earth fulfil....
With humble, rev’rent, tender heart The heav’nly Father’s will,
The work, tho’ mean and poor to view With heav’nly grace is fraught,
Since age to age it passes on The lesson Jesus taught.
THE FATHER’S WILL
WHEN FATHER COMES HOME
DEAR MAMMA
MY MOTHER
FOR MOTHER
MY FATHER BLESSED ME
THE PRINCE COMES
WHERE_DID_YOU_COME_FROM_BABY_DEAR
HUSHABY
BABY_SLEEP
SWEETLY SLEEP
GOODNIGHT
THE BABY-JUMPER
MY BROTHER
LOVE YOUR LITTLE BROTHER
THE BROOK
LOVE ONE ANOTHER
SYMPATHY
LOVE AT HOME
WE ARE SEVEN
GRANDPA AND ME
JESUS DWELLS WITHIN
K. E. C. German
Down in our lowly home All goes so well; All pleasures
hither come To our sweet dell; Father so brave is here, Mother so
kind and dear! Oh, in our lowly home All goes so well.
Down by our fireside neat Love rules the hours Thro’ winter’s
icy sleet And summer’s flow’rs. Children, a happy band, Kind words and
gentle hand: Oh, by our fireside neat Love rules the hours.
Why in our peaceful cot Goes all so well? Why here love
faileth not Can any tell? Jesus abides within, Guarding from
strife and sin. O Saviour, evermore Here with us dwell.
THE BLIND BOY
LITTLE NEIGHBORS
A BOY’S FAITH
THE ORPHAN FLOWER-GIRL
THE BLACKBERRY-GIRL
THE BLACKBERRY-GIRL
HOW SELFISH IT IS!
THINKING OF MERCIES
HOUR BY HOUR
DAWN OF DAY
MORNING
EYE-PEEP HOUR
THE COLD WATER BOY
WHAT I HATE
WHAT I LOVE
FOLDED WINGS
UP EARLY
TIME
LITTLE DROPS OF WATER
LITTLE DROPS OF WATER
Rev. Eben C. Brewer English
1. Little drops of water, Little
grains of sand, Make the mighty
ocean And the pleasant land.
2. Thus the little minutes, Humble
though they be, Make the mighty
ages Of eternity.
3. Little deeds of kindness, Little
words of love, Make our earth an
Eden Like to Heav’n above.
HOW I LOVE
HAPPY HELEN
I WILL BE GOOD TO-DAY
THE HONEST BOY
THE LIE
THE GOLDEN RULE
TWO LITTLE TEMPERS
MEDDLESOME MATTIE
A GOOD NAME
TRUST AND TRY
PERSEVERE
THE GENEROUS HEART
BUSY LITTLE FARMER
IS IT YOU?
DAISY’S PRAYER
THE SHADOWS
CHILD’S SELF-EXAMINATION
LITTLE STAR
GOOD-NIGHT
WHY SHOULD I FEAR?
A SONG TO BRING SLEEP
GOING TO REST
AT CLOSE OF DAY
HO FOR SLUMBERLAND
SLUMBER ISLANDS
K. E. C. (Chorus, with motion[1]) K. E. C.
Ho, ho, ho! in Dreamland boats we go,
Row, row, row, oh, Boatman, gently row,
Low, low, low, sing, wavelets, sing below; Along
the tide of Sleep we glide To Slumber Islands, ho!
[1] The rowing of a boat
ASLEEP
LITTLE POOR RELATIONS
LITTLE, BUT WISE
LITTLE DOG
MY PUSSY
KITTY AND MOUSIE
KINDNESS TO ANIMALS
GENTLE BOSSY
WHEN THE COWS COME HOME
THE NAUGHTY CHICK
