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From her little trampled corner of the long wide lea

That stretches to the waters of the hill-stream falling

Sheer upon the flat rocks joyously!

There, oh there! on the island of the sea,

There I would be at dawn.

The tired cars go grumbling by,

The crazy, lazy cars,

And the same milk carts go rumbling by

Under the dying stars.

A lonely newsboy hurries by,

Humming a recent ditty;

Red streaks strike through the gray of the sky,

The dawn comes to the city.

But I would be on the island of the sea,

In the heart of the island of the sea,

Where the cocks are crowing, crowing, crowing,

And the hens are cackling in the rose-apple tree,

Where the old draft-horse is neighing, neighing, neighing

Out on the brown dew-silvered lawn,

And the tethered cow is lowing, lowing, lowing,