Where go the children? Travelling! Travelling!

Where go the children, travelling ahead?

Some go to foreign wars, and camps by the firelight

Some go to glory so; and some go to bed!

Some go through grassy lanes leading to the city—

Thinner grow the green trees and thicker grows the dust;

Ever, though, to little people any path is pretty

So it leads to newer lands, as they know it must.