[Gutenberg 4783] • Riley Farm-Rhymes

Excerpt from Riley Farm-Rhymes James Whitcomb Riley With Country Pictures

The deadnin' and the thicket's jes' a b'ilin' full o' June,

From the rattle o' the cricket, to the yaller-hammer's tune;

And the catbird in the bottom and the sap-suck on the snag,

Seems's ef they cain't - od-rot-'em! - jes' do nothin' else but brag!

There' music in the twitter o' the bluebird and the jay,

And that sassy little critter jes' a-peckin' all the day;

There' music in the "flicker," and there' music in the thrush,

And there' music in the snicker o' the chipmunk in the brush! -

There' music all around me! - And I go back - in a dream

Sweeter yit than ever found me fast asleep: - And, in the stream

That used to split the medder wher' the dandylions growed,

I stand knee-deep, and redder than the sunset down the road.

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