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56 Then did the little Maid reply,

"Seven boys and girls are we;

"Two of us in the church-yard lie,

"Beneath the church-yard tree."

"You run about, my little maid,

"Your limbs they are alive;

"If two are in the church-yard laid,

"Then ye are only five."

"Their graves are green, they may be seen,"

The little Maid replied,

"Twelve steps or more from my mothers door,

"And they are side by side.

"My stockings there I often knit,

"My 'kerchief there I hem;

"And there upon the ground I sit—

"I sit and sing to them.