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OUR ELLEN.
Ellen, Ellen, there's no telling
Half our love for thee, dear girl,
Features merry, lips like cherry,
Sunny eye and glossy curl.
Half our love for thee, dear girl,
Features merry, lips like cherry,
Sunny eye and glossy curl.
Ever singing, sweet voice ringing,
Like a bird or like a bell,
Never weary, ever cheery,
Ever striving to excel.
Like a bird or like a bell,
Never weary, ever cheery,
Ever striving to excel.
Late or early, never surly,
Never fretting, seldom sad,
Thy appearing, always cheering,
Everybody making glad.
Never fretting, seldom sad,
Thy appearing, always cheering,
Everybody making glad.
Youth possessing, and each blessing
Which the genial age imparts,
Still bewitching hall or kitchen,
Ever reigning queen of hearts.
Which the genial age imparts,
Still bewitching hall or kitchen,
Ever reigning queen of hearts.
Always cheery, never dreary
From the morn till setting sun,
Chicken feeding, playing, reading,
Ever seasoning work with fun.
From the morn till setting sun,
Chicken feeding, playing, reading,
Ever seasoning work with fun.
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Cunning talker, agile walker,
Bounding onward like a deer,
Blithesome moving, fair flowers loving,
That brighter seem when thou art near.
Bounding onward like a deer,
Blithesome moving, fair flowers loving,
That brighter seem when thou art near.
Features merry, lips like cherry,
Laughing eye and sunny curl,—
Ah, dear Ellen, there's no telling
Half our love for thee, dear girl!
Laughing eye and sunny curl,—
Ah, dear Ellen, there's no telling
Half our love for thee, dear girl!
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