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'Twixt Sunrise and the Moon
Now rosily and cosily
The farmstead window shines,
Two stars are watching still in heaven,
The moon is o'er the pines.
The farmstead window shines,
Two stars are watching still in heaven,
The moon is o'er the pines.
Now cheerily, unwearily
Mike shuts the barn-house door,
And with his hay-sheet on his back
Goes bravely to the moor.
Mike shuts the barn-house door,
And with his hay-sheet on his back
Goes bravely to the moor.
With clamouring and hammering
The village stithy wakes,
And smith and shepherd only know
How dawn the daylight makes;
The village stithy wakes,
And smith and shepherd only know
How dawn the daylight makes;
For flittering and twittering
The robin breaks to tune.
He sings the magic of the world
'Twixt sunrise and the moon.
The robin breaks to tune.
He sings the magic of the world
'Twixt sunrise and the moon.
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