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Half a dozen children / At our house! / Half a dozen children / Quiet as a mouse, / Quiet as a moonbeam, / You could hear a pin -- / Waiting for the party / To begin.
Such a flood of flounces! / (Oh dear me! ) / Such a surge of sashes / Like a silken sea. / Little eyes demurely / Cast upon the ground, / Little airs and graces / All around.