WHAT CAN CHILDREN DO?
BY LAURA F. ARMITAGE.
First child—
What can the little children do,
When Decoration Day is here,
To show their love for soldiers brave
Who, fighting for their country, gave
The life that was to them so dear?
Second child—
We’ll bring the lovely flowers of spring
That in the fields and gardens grow,
And on the soldiers’ graves today
Our garlands we will gladly lay,
Our loving thoughts of them to show.
Third child—
We’ll raise aloft the “stars and stripes”
On this Memorial Day, to show
We honor those who for it bled.
Some now are living, many dead,
For this was many years ago.
Fourth child—
We’ll sing our patriotic songs;
We’ll truly sing with heart and voice.
And to our country we’ll be true.
And honor our “red, white, and blue,”
And in our freedom we'll rejoice.
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A FLAG EXERCISE.
(For the smallest ones.)
Holding the Flag:
1st. This is our Flag, and may it wave
Wide over land and sea!
Though others love a different flag,
This is the flag for me.
Concert Recitation:
And that's the flag for all our land.
We will revere no other:
And he who loves the symbol fair,
Shall be to us a brother.
2d. America’s the land we love,
Our broad, fair land so free:
And schoolmates, whereso’er I go.
This is the flag for me.
(Repeat concert recitation.)
3d. These glorious stars and radiant stripes,
With youthful joy I see;
May no rude hand its beauty mar!
This is the flag for me.
(Repeat concert recitation.)
Note.—Provide three small flags for use in this exercise and drill on waving in unison during the concert recital.
