RILEY FARM-RHYMES

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

INSCRIBED WITH ALL GRATEFUL ESTEEM





TO THE GOOD OLD-FASHIONED PEOPLE

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