Excerpt from Riley Farm-Rhymes James Whitcomb Riley With Country Pictures Ef I could sing - sweet and low And my tongue Could twitter, don't you know, Ez I sung. Of the summer-time, -'y Jings! All the words and birds and things That kin warble, and hes wings, Would jes' swear And declare That they never heerd sieh singin' anywhere!see. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"Riley Farm-Rhymes" from James Whitcomb Riley. American writer and poet (1849-1916).