Child Songs of Cheer

<h2><SPAN name="AN_INDIAN_RAID" id="AN_INDIAN_RAID"></SPAN>AN INDIAN RAID</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Did you see some Indians passing,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Just a short while back?<br/></span> <span class="i0">Looks as if they must be massing<br/></span> <span class="i2">For a fierce attack!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Buckskin fringes, turkey-feather<br/></span> <span class="i2">Huge head-dresses and<br/></span> <span class="i0">Bows and arrows, altogether<br/></span> <span class="i2">Quite a frightful band!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">From the lilac-bushes springing,<br/></span> <span class="i2">See them rushing! Ugh!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Awful war-whoops wildly ringing!<br/></span> <span class="i2">There'll be scalping, too!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">In their fearful frenzy leaping,<br/></span> <span class="i2">It is very plain<br/></span> <span class="i0">Soon around us they'll be heaping<br/></span> <span class="i2">Mountains of the slain!<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Soon their victims will be falling&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">But, above the noise,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Hark! I hear somebody calling,<br/></span> <span class="i2">"Come to dinner, boys!"<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />