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NCE I had a little sweetheart
 * In the land of the Malay,—

Such a little yellow sweetheart!
 * Warm and peerless as the day

Of her own dear sunny island,
 * Keimah, in the far, far East,

Where the mango and banana
 * Made us many a meny feast.

Such a little copper sweetheart
 * Was my Golu, plump and round.

With her hair all blue-black streaming
 * O'er her to the very ground.

Soft and clear as dew-drop clinging
 * To a grass blade was her eye;

For the heart below was purer
 * Than the hill-stream whispering by.