Gleesome

Then the merry little boys they will ramble, / So gleesome, o’er mountain and dale, / Where the sweets of the rose through the bramble / Will be blown by the mild summer gale: / Then a share of Nature’s smiles each morning / To the poor humble peasant will be given. / While the lark from his covert he is soaring, / His musical notes to the heaven.

So long as the men kept sober, Jervis rather liked this, and was never better pleased than when, on the last evening of the week, he heard the voices of the men raised in song, or the squeaking of the merry fiddle and gleesome flute.

"And wasn't it just jolly!" gloated a juvenile gleesome voice in a loud whisper.

For the bird will sing gleesome dirges in your heart!"

They were “gleesome as kittens, especially when off to a fight or a fire.”

“So it was a right gleesome frolic he had that night?”