Child Songs of Cheer

<h2><SPAN name="A_SURE_SIGN" id="A_SURE_SIGN"></SPAN>A SURE SIGN</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">When you see upon the walk<br/></span> <span class="i0">Circles newly made of chalk,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And around them all the day<br/></span> <span class="i0">Little boys in eager play<br/></span> <span class="i0">Rolling marbles, agates fine,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Banded, polished, red as wine,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Marbles crystal as the dew,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Each with rainbows twisted through,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Marbles gay in painted clay,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Flashing, twinkling in your way,<br/></span> <span class="i0">When the walk has blossomed so,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Surely every one must know<br/></span> <span class="i0">None need wonder who has heard<br/></span> <span class="i0">Robin, wren, or Peter-bird;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Sure the sign as song or wing,<br/></span> <span class="i4">It is spring!<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />