GRANDMOTHER'S BIRTHDAY.
Grandma's birthday is to-day!
This we all have come to say,
Lest she should forget the time,
Wondering at this joyful rhyme.
Welcome, welcome, happy day!
Love shed brightness on her way!
And for her may many more
Just such birthdays be in store!
We have come with fruits and flowers,
Tokens of this love of ours;
But our love shall flourish bright
When these flowers are faded quite.
Take them, grandma, and be sure
We are rich, though we are poor,—
Rich in love, though poor in gold:
So to greet you we make bold.
Blessings be around your way!
Love surround you every day!
Pleasant thoughts be with you still,
Gently going down the hill!
And may your example bright
Keep us always in the right!
So, "Hurrah, hurrah!" we say:
"Grandma's birthday is to-day!"
Dora Burnside.
