Hear the Happy Voices Ringing

Hear the hap­py voic­es ring­ing

All up­raised in joy­ous song;

Gladsome notes to Heav’n are wing­ing

From the hap­py child­ish throng.

Sweet to hear God’s joy­ous child­ren

Praising Him

their heav’n­ly king;

He will ev­er keep them shel­tered

’Neath the sha­dow of His wing.

Ringing

ring­ing

ring­ing

Hear the child­ren’s hap­py voic­es ring;

Singing

sing­ing

sing­ing

Hear the hap­py child­ren sing­ing

Ringing

ring­ing

ring­ing

Hear the hap­py child­ish throng;

Music sweet is sound­ing

On the air re­sound­ing

Listen to the joy­ous song.

Hark! the mu­sic sweet is sound­ing

On the per­fumed sum­mer air;

From the woods and fields re­sound­ing

Nature an­swers ev­ery­where.

How the bright and hap­py faces

Scatter sun­shine on the way;

With their win­some

smil­ing grac­es

On this joy­ous Child­ren’s Day.

Flow’rs their pret­ty heads are bend­ing

In the gen­tle sum­mer breeze;

Gold and crim­son soft­ly bend­ing

With the green and wav­ing trees.

Streams are in the sun­light danc­ing

Gliding swift­ly on their way;

In their nev­er ceas­ing mo­tion

Emblems of eter­nal day.