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What is the song the children sing / When doorway lilacs bloom in Spring, / And the Schools are loosed, and the games are played / That were deadly earnest when Earth was made? / Hear them chattering, shrill and hard, / After dinner-time, out in the yard, / As the sides are chosen and all submit / To the chance of the lot that shall make them "It."
(Singing) "_Eenee, Meenee, Mainee, Mo! / Catch a nigger by the toe! / If he hollers let him go / Eenee, Meenee, Mainee, Mo! / You-are-It! _"