1 Caroling clear in the morning sunlight,
Cheerily swinging on bough and spray,
Hear the glad birds in their happiness singing,
Greeting the dawn of the Children's day.
Chorus:
Cheerily, cheerily, riseth the song,
Merrily, merrily join in the strain,
Children's sweet voices the echo prolong,
Summer's glad music is singing again.
2 Over the meadows the honeybee's humming,
Gather their sweets from the bloom laden bowers,
Bright are the fields all aflame with the glory,
Sweet with the perfume of beautiful flowers. [Chorus]
3 Hail to the day to the children given,
Glad with it's wonderful music and light,
Twining our thoughts to our homes in heaven,
Drawing us nearer that shore so bright. [Chorus]
Source: Light in the Valley: a new work of great merit for the Sunday school, revivals, Christian Endeavor, Epworth League, young people's society, and all forward movement along the line of battle... #198
Ida Lilliard Reed, 1865-1951
Born: November 30, 1865, near Arden, Barbour County, West Virginia.
Died: July 8, 1951, Arden, West Virginia.
Buried: Ebenezer Methodist Church, Arden, West Virginia.
Reed is said to have written 2,000 hymns in her lifetime. In 1939, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers recognized her "substantial contribution to American music" by awarding her a small "weekly bonus."
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