Front matter
Reading edition
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Second Book of Tales.
Songs and Other Verse.
The Holy Cross and Other Tales.
The House.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac.
A Little Book of Profitable Tales.
A Little Book of Western Verse.
Second Book of Verse.
Each, 1 vol., 16mo, $1.25.
A Little Book of Profitable Tales.
Cameo Edition with etched portrait. 16mo, $1.25.
Echoes from the Sabine Farm.
4to, $2.00.
With Trumpet and Drum.
16mo, $1.00.
Love Songs of Childhood.
16mo, $1.00.
Songs of Childhood.
Verses by Eugene Field. Music by Reginald de Koven, and others. Small 4to, $2.00 net.
With·Trumpet·and·Drum
by Eugene·Field New·York Charles·Scribner’s·Sons 1897 Copyright, 1892, by Mary French Field. TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK
This volume is made up of verse compiled from my “Little Book of Western Verse,” my “Second Book of Verse,” and the files of the “Chicago Daily News,” the “Youth’s Companion,” and the “Ladies’ Home Journal.”
E.F.
Chicago, October 25, 1892.
WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM
With big tin trumpet and little red drum, Marching like soldiers, the children come! It’s this way and that way they circle and file— My! but that music of theirs is fine! This way and that way, and after a while They march straight into this heart of mine! A sturdy old heart, but it has to succumb To the blare of that trumpet and beat of that drum! Come on, little people, from cot and from hall— This heart it hath welcome and room for you all! It will sing you its songs and warm you with love, As your dear little arms with my arms intertwine; It will rock you away to the dreamland above— Oh, a jolly old heart is this old heart of mine, And jollier still is it bound to become When you blow that big trumpet and beat that red drum! So come; though I see not his dear little face And hear not his voice in this jubilant place, I know he were happy to bid me enshrine His memory deep in my heart with your play— Ah me! but a love that is sweeter than mine Holdeth my boy in its keeping to-day! And my heart it is lonely—so, little folk, come, March in and make merry with trumpet and drum! EUGENE FIELD. Chicago, September 13, 1892.
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The Sugar-Plum Tree1
Krinken4
The Naughty Doll7
Nightfall in Dordrecht10
Intry-Mintry12
Pittypat and Tippytoe15
Balow, my Bonnie18
The Hawthorne Children20
Little Blue Pigeon (Japanese Lullaby)24
The Lyttel Boy26
Teeny-Weeny28
Nellie31
Norse Lullaby33
Grandma’s Prayer35
Some Time36
The Fire-Hangbird’s Nest38
Buttercup, Poppy, Forget-me-not44
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (Dutch Lullaby)46
Gold and Love for Dearie49
The Peace of Christmas-Time51
To a Little Brook54
Croodlin’ Doo[A]58
Little Mistress Sans-Merci60
Long Ago62
In the Firelight64
Cobbler and Stork (Armenian Folk-Lore)66
“Lollyby, lolly, Lollyby”70
Lizzie and the Baby72
At the Door74
Hugo’s “Child at Play”76
Hi-Spy77
Little Boy Blue78
Father’s Letter80
Jewish Lullaby86
Our Whippings88
The Armenian Mother (Folk-Song)93
Heigho, my Dearie95
To a Usurper97
The Bell-flower Tree99
Fairy and Child102
The Grandsire104
Hushaby, Sweet my Own106
Child and Mother108
Medieval Eventide Song110
Armenian Lullaby113
Christmas Treasures115
Oh, Little Child118
Ganderfeather’s Gift120
Bambino (Sicilian Folk-Song)123
Little Homer’s Slate125
WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM
