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Show OUR YOUNG READERS. BORN ON AN APRIL DAY. The girl that is born on an April day Has a right to be merry, lightsome, gay; And that is the reason I dance and play And frisk like a mote in a sunny ray- Wouldn't you Do it, too, If you had been born on an April day? One girl that is born on an April day Has also a right to cry, they say; And so I sometimes do give way When things get pranked or all astray- Wouldn't you Do it, too, If you had been born on an April day? The girls of March love noise and fray; And sweet as blossoms are girls of May; But I belong to the time midway- And so I rejoice in a sunny spray Of ?? and ?? and hap-a-day- Wouldn't you Do it, too, If you had been born on an April day? Heigho! and hurrah! for an April day, Its cloud, its sparkle, its skip and stay! I mean to be happy whenever I may, And cry when I must; for that's my way. Wouldn't you Do it, too, If you had been born on a April day? -Mary ?? Badge, in St. Nicholas. |