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"Sweep! sweep! sweep! sweep!" cries little Jack, / With brush and bag upon his back, / And black from head to foot; / While daily, as he goes along, / "Sweep! sweep! sweep! sweep!" is all his song, / Beneath his load of soot.
But then he was not always black. / Oh no! he once was pretty Jack, / And had a kind papa; / But, silly child! he ran to play / Too far from home, a long, long way, / And did not ask mamma.