McKernan. This Is the Day

This Is the Day is a children's book by Llewellyn McKernan, with art by Ann Barrow, published in 1994. It is available at the Internet Archive.

This is like a hymn of praise, told in the style of "The House that Jack Built." Note the distinctive use of a refrain at the end of each recitation: Let us rejoice and be glad in it. I like that device very much!

The setting is a farm, and it uses animal sounds rather than rhyme. Here is the final recitation; as you can see, it ends arbitrarily at the goat without any real sense of ending: it could go on and on! Most of the lines are short, with just a few of the longer lines here and there (the rhythm is a bit iffy):

This is the goat;
Its bell goes tra-la
at the lamb who baas
at the dove, meek and mild,
which coos at the cow
that moos at the pig
that squeals at the hen
that clucks at the rooster
that crows at the boy
who comes out and plays
with them all on the farm
the sun shines on
as it dawns on this day
the Lord has made.
   Let us rejoice and be glad in it.