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Song of Summer Days Frontispiece ssss1 ssss1 ssss1 ssss1 ssss1 ssss1 ssss1 ssss1 The Gingercake Man 52 The Waders 84 A Prayer for Jimmy Banks 88 Once Upon A Time 94 The Neighbor’s Boys 104 Asleep at the Circus 136 In Swimming 162 The Parted Ways 176 Lullaby 180 Verses of a Little Child 208 Lover’s Lane 228

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“I WON’T be long,” the Little Boy said,

As he clattered him down the stair,

And found him a hat for his curly head

And called to a dog somewhere.

Then off like a flash down the shady lane

With a whistle and cry and song;

And back to us ever it came again:

“I won’t be gone very long.”

“I won’t be long,” the Little Boy said,

As we saw him among the trees,

His eyes all bright and his cheeks all red,

A friend of the birds and bees;

Then through the hedges and out of the gate,

For naught in the world goes wrong

With a boy of six or seven or eight—