With Trumpet and Drum

Name: With Trumpet and Drum
Author: Field, Eugene

Field, Eugene

Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile poetry; Children's poetry; Conduct of life -- Juvenile poetry

WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM

                            BY EUGENE FIELD


          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


                            [Illustration]


                               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!_

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With Trumpet and Drum

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