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SONGS OF CHILDHOOD: 1901

But, as soon as I stooped in the dim moonlight
To put on my stocking and my shoe,
The sweet shrill singing echoed faintly away,
And the grey of the morning peeped through,
And instead of the gnomies there came a red robin

To sing of the buttercups and dew.

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