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AMY MARGARET'S five years old, / Amy Margaret's hair is gold, / Dearer twenty-thousand-fold / Than gold, is Amy Margaret.
"Amy" is friend, is "Margaret"
The pearl for crown or carkanet?
Or peeping daisy, Summer's pet?
Which are you, Amy Margaret?
A friend, a daisy, and a pearl; / A kindly, simple, precious girl, -- / Such, howsoe'er the world may twirl, / Be ever, -- Amy Margaret!