<h2><SPAN name="SWING_SONG" id="SWING_SONG">SWING SONG</SPAN></h2>
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<span class="upper">As</span> I swing, as I swing,<br/>
Here beneath my mother’s wing,<br/>
Here beneath my mother’s arm,<br/>
Never earthly thing can harm.<br/>
Up and down, to and fro,<br/>
With a steady sweep I go,<br/>
Like a swallow on the wing,<br/>
As I swing, as I swing.<br/></p>
<p>As I swing, as I swing,<br/>
Honey-bee comes murmuring,<br/>
Humming softly in my ear,<br/>
“Come away with me, my dear!<br/>
In the tiger-lily’s cup<br/>
Sweetest honey we will sup.”<br/>
Go away, you velvet thing!<br/>
I must swing! I must swing!<br/><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</SPAN></span></p>
<p>As I swing, as I swing,<br/>
Butterfly comes fluttering,<br/>
“Little child, now come away<br/>
’Mid the clover-blooms to play;<br/>
Clover-blooms are red and white,<br/>
Sky is blue and sun is bright.<br/>
Why then thus, with folded wing,<br/>
Sit and swing, sit and swing?”<br/></p>
<p>As I swing, as I swing,<br/>
Oriole comes hovering.<br/>
“See my nest in yonder tree!<br/>
Little child, come work with me.<br/>
Learn to make a perfect nest,<br/>
That of all things is the best.<br/>
Come! nor longer loitering<br/>
Sit and swing, sit and swing!”<br/></p>
<p>As I swing, as I swing,<br/>
Though I have not any wing,<br/>
Still I would not change with you,<br/>
Happiest bird that ever flew.<br/>
Butterfly and honey-bee,<br/>
Sure ’t is you must envy me,<br/>
Safe beneath my mother’s wing<br/>
As I swing, as I swing.<br/></p>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</SPAN></span></p>
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