FLOWER-BELLS.

1. The flower-bells are ringing! come one, and come all; Come plain and come pretty, come great and come small. The flower-bells are ringing! come quick, and you’ll say, 165 Some queer little people have joined in our play.

2. They’ll do us no harm, and may do us some good; They’d make us all happy and wise, if they could. In cups of the flowers they love dearly to dwell; Now listen, and hear them each ringing a bell!

3. “Come, boys and girls, come to our flower-school and learn The lessons we find in each lily and fern; We’ll teach you to seek for the fair and the good, In city and village, in field and in wood.”