Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="SUMMER_HOLIDAYS" id="SUMMER_HOLIDAYS"></SPAN>Summer Holidays</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">S</span>CHOOL’S out! they cried, two happy wights;<br/></span> <span class="i2">School’s out for such a while,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The old bell won’t ding-dong to-day<br/></span> <span class="i2">And make us run a mile.<br/></span> <span class="i0">It seems too good&mdash;no lessons now<br/></span> <span class="i2">To tire us right out,<br/></span> <span class="i0">We’ve not a single thing to do<br/></span> <span class="i2">But run, and play, and shout.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">We’re going fishing in the creek<br/></span> <span class="i2">With bran new hook an’ line,<br/></span> <span class="i0">We’re going hunting in the woods,<br/></span> <span class="i2">O, holidays are fine!<br/></span> <span class="i0">We’re going to wade out in the pond<br/></span> <span class="i2">And scare the ducks and drake,<br/></span> <span class="i0">We’re going haying in the field,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And swimming in the lake.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">We’re going to jump, we’re going to sing,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And yell, and make a noise&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">’Cause holidays come from the sky<br/></span> <span class="i2">For tired-out, shut-up boys.<br/></span> <span class="i0">That mean old bell that called so loud<br/></span> <span class="i2">Each time that it was rung,<br/></span> <span class="i0"><i>Come right straight in and hurry up!</i><br/></span> <span class="i2">Has just to hold its tongue.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_104" id="page_104"></SPAN>{104}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />