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Sho had a rustic, woodland air, "You aay that two at Conway
And she was wildly clad ; And two are gone to sea, [dwell,
Her eyes were fair, and very fair, Yet you are seven; I pray you tell,
—Her beauty made me glad. Sweet maid, how this may be.”

"Sisters and brothers, little maid, Then did the little maid reply,
How many may you be ?” “ Seven boys and girla are we;
"Howmany? seTenin aH, "shesaid, Two of us in the church yard lie,
And, wondering, look’d at me, Beneath the church-yard tree.’*
“And where arc they} I pray you <f You run about, my little maid,
tell." Your limbs they are alive;
Sho answer'd, " Seven arc we : If two are in the church yard laid,
And two of us at Conway dwell, Then you are ooiy Gve."
And two are gone to sea.
“Their graves are green, they may
"Two of us in the church-yard He, beseen,”'
My eister and my brother; The little maid replied,
And in the church yard cottage 1 "Twelve steps or more, from my
Dwell near them with my mo­ mothers door,
ther:1 And they are &idc by side.

“ My stockings there I often knit, “ And often after sun set, sir,
My 'kcrchief there I hem ; "When it in light and &ir.
And there upon the ground I sit— I take my little porringer,
I ait and talk to them. And eat my supper there.