 | Poems and verses by Mary Mapes Dodge |  |
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AN APRIL GIRL.
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.
Would n't you
Do it, too,
If you had been 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.
Would n't you
Do it, too,
If you had been born on an April day?
The girl that is born on an April day
Has a royal right to cry, they say;
And so I sometimes do give way
When things get crooked or all astray.
Would n't you
Do it, too,
If you had been born on an April day?
Has a royal right to cry, they say;
And so I sometimes do give way
When things get crooked or all astray.
Would n't you
Do it, too,
If you had been born on an April day?
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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 smiles and tears and hap-a-day—
Would n't you
Do it, too,
If you had been born on an April day?
And sweet as blossoms are girls of May;
But I belong to the time midway—
And so I rejoice in a sunny spray
Of smiles and tears and hap-a-day—
Would n't you
Do it, too,
If you had been born on an April day?
Heigh-ho! 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.
Would n't you
Do it, too,
If you had been born on 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.
Would n't you
Do it, too,
If you had been born on an April day?
| Poems and verses by Mary Mapes Dodge | |