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Yesterday I watched you when you set / There with your little lunch-box in your lap; / I seen you nibble at a ginger snap, / And wished that where your lips had made it wet / I'd have a chance to take a bite and let / My mouth be right where yours was before; / And after you had got your apple e't, / And wasn't lookin', I picked up the core.
I pressed my mouth against it then, and so / It seemed almost the same as kissin' you, / Your teeth had touched it, and your red lips, too, / And it was good and tasted sweet, and, oh, / I wished you'd bring an apple every day / And I could have the cores you'd throw away.