The Lions (Marching Plays for Nursery and Kindergarten.)

The lions shun the sun!
All day, asleep,
Deep in the thicket’s shade
The lions keep.

(Teacher sings.)

’Tis in the dark midnights
The lions wake;
All silent and alone
Their way they take.

(Teacher sings.)

Awake, at night they seek
The river-shore;

(Children join in.)

And all the desert vast
Shakes with their roar.

The lions, they are kings!
They make the law!
Yea, every creature fears
The lion’s paw!

(Teacher sings.)

The lions never tire!
With tossing mane
They bound along
The moonlit plain.

(Children sing.)

They never, never tire!
They speed away
And follow, follow on,
And take the prey!

Grey Burleson.