Child Songs of Cheer

<h2><SPAN name="THE_RUNAWAY" id="THE_RUNAWAY"></SPAN>THE RUNAWAY</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">A frantic clatter of horses' feet!<br/></span> <span class="i0">A runaway's coming down the street!<br/></span> <span class="i4">Flurry, scurry,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Children, hurry!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Drop your playthings! Quick! don't wait!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Run and get within the gate!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Push the baby in the door,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Scramble in yourselves before<br/></span> <span class="i4">&mdash;<i>Whoa! Whoa!</i><br/></span> <span class="i4">There they go!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Pell-mell rushing, snorting, quaking,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Wagon rumbling, harness breaking,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Frightened so they cannot know<br/></span> <span class="i0">Everybody's shrieking "<i>Whoa!</i>"<br/></span> <span class="i4">O my, don't cry!<br/></span> <span class="i2">Whiz, bang, they've galloped by!<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</SPAN></span><span class="i0">No one hurt, but horses dashed<br/></span> <span class="i0">Round a post and wagon smashed!<br/></span> <span class="i4">Dear me! Dear me!<br/></span> <span class="i2">When a runaway we see,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Children, too, must run, oh, fast!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Run and hide as it goes past!<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />