Hide and Seek + 

All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still, + 

All the fleecy flocks of cloud, gone beyond the hill; + 

Through the noon-day silence, down the woods of June, + 

Hark, a little hunter’s voice, running with a tune. + 

“Hide and seek! + 

“When I speak, + 

“You must answer me: + 

“Call again, + 

“Merry men, + 

“Coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!” + 

Now I hear his footsteps rustling in the grass: + 

Hidden in my leafy nook, shall I let him pass? + 

Just a low, soft whistle⁠—quick the hunter turns, + 

Leaps upon me laughing loud, rolls me in the ferns. + 

“Hold him fast, + 

“Caught at last! + 

“Now you’re it, you see. + 

“Hide your eye, + 

“Till I cry, + 

Coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!” + 

Long ago he left me, long and long ago; + 

Now I wander thro’ the world, seeking high and low. + 

Hidden safe and happy, in some pleasant place⁠— + 

If I could but hear his voice, soon I’d see his face! + 

Far away, + 

Many a day, + 

Where can Barney be? + 

Answer, dear, + 

Don’t you hear? + 

Coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee! + 

Birds that every springtime sung him full of joy, + 

Flowers he loved to pick for me, mind me of my boy. + 

Somewhere he is waiting till my steps come nigh; + 

Love may hide itself awhile, but love can never die. + 

Heart, be glad, + 

The little lad + 

Will call again to thee: + 

“Father dear, + 

“Heaven is here, + 

“Coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!” + 