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<h2> LITTLE-OH DEAR </h2>
<p>See, what a wonderful garden is here,<br/>
Planted and trimmed for my Little-Oh-Dear!<br/>
Posies so gaudy and grass of such brown—<br/>
Search ye the country and hunt ye the town<br/>
And never ye'll meet with a garden so queer<br/>
As this one I've made for my Little-Oh-Dear!<br/>
Marigolds white and buttercups blue,<br/>
Lilies all dabbled with honey and dew,<br/>
The cactus that trails over trellis and wall,<br/>
Roses and pansies and violets—all<br/>
Make proper obeisance and reverent cheer<br/>
When into her garden steps Little-Oh-Dear.<br/>
And up at the top of that lavender-tree<br/>
A silver-bird singeth as only can she;<br/>
For, ever and only, she singeth the song<br/>
"I love you—I love you!" the happy day long;—<br/>
Then the echo—the echo that smiteth me here!<br/>
"I love you, I love you," my Little-Oh-Dear!<br/>
The garden may wither, the silver-bird fly—<br/>
But what careth my little precious, or I?<br/>
From her pathway of flowers that in spring time upstart<br/>
She walketh the tenderer way in my heart<br/>
And, oh, it is always the summer-time here<br/>
With that song of "I love you," my Little-Oh-Dear!<br/></p>
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