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"Little Haly! Little Haly! " cheeps the robin in the tree; / "Little Haly! " sighs the clover, "Little Haly! " moans the bee; / "Little Haly! Little Haly! " calls the kill-deer at twilight; / And the katydids and crickets hollers "Haly! " all the night.
The sunflowers and the hollyhawks droops over the garden fence; / The old path down the gardenwalks still holds her footprints' dents; / And the well-sweep's swingin' bucket seems to wait fer her to come / And start it on its wortery errant down the old bee-gum.