Child Songs of Cheer

<h2><SPAN name="A_VALENTINE_TO_CATHERINE" id="A_VALENTINE_TO_CATHERINE"></SPAN>A VALENTINE TO CATHERINE</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">If you will be my True-Love,<br/></span> <span class="i2">I'll tell you what I'll do,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I'll ask a little bluebird<br/></span> <span class="i2">To sing a song to you.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">When first you see a violet<br/></span> <span class="i2">And softly pricking through<br/></span> <span class="i0">The garden-bed come crocuses<br/></span> <span class="i2">And golden tulips, too,<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Then watch! for he'll be coming,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The little bird of blue;<br/></span> <span class="i0">He'll sing, "I love you, Sweetheart,<br/></span> <span class="i2">It's true, true, true!"<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />