CHERRY TIME
(In Santa Clara Valley)
(In Santa Clara Valley)
Merrily mounting ladder and limb,
The cherry-picker swings his pail of tin,
The chimney's purple spiral
Curling through the morning mist,
The wild rose-linnet's carol
From the cherry orchard, list!
Ripple of laugh and repartee
Vibrating gaily from tree to tree,
Maidens in fresh-ironed calicoes
Sit in the packing-house in rows.
Merrily mounting ladder and limb,
The cherry-picker swings his pail of tin.
The cherry-picker swings his pail of tin,
The chimney's purple spiral
Curling through the morning mist,
The wild rose-linnet's carol
From the cherry orchard, list!
Ripple of laugh and repartee
Vibrating gaily from tree to tree,
Maidens in fresh-ironed calicoes
Sit in the packing-house in rows.
Merrily mounting ladder and limb,
The cherry-picker swings his pail of tin.
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How often Virtue rears an humble stone,
In shade of Vice's sculptured mausoleum;
The greatest heroes Truth has ever known,
Error and Ignorance hastened to condemn.
In shade of Vice's sculptured mausoleum;
The greatest heroes Truth has ever known,
Error and Ignorance hastened to condemn.
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