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Dilly Dally

    By Madison Julius Cawein



I.

    There is a little girl I know
    Who takes her time to come and go.
    If you should ask her please to hurry,
    She tries her best then to be slow:
    She gives her parents lots of worry;
    But she, she never worries no.
    Her name is Dilly Dally;
    But some folks call her"Gallie."
    From head to feet
    She's never neat,
    But always shilly shally.

II.

    When it is time for her to rise,
    She won't get up, but lies and lies,
    Her head beneath the cover:
    Then down she comes with sleepy eyes,
    When breakfast-time is over;
    Uncombed, with shoes she never ties.
    Her name is Dilly Dally;
    But some folks call her"Gallie."
    From head to feet
    She's never neat,
    But always shilly shally.

III.

    When it is time to go to bed,
    She plays around or hangs her head,
    And mopes in some dark corner,
    And cries and wishes she were dead:
    No girl could be forlorner
    When off to bed at last she's led.
    Her name is Dilly Dally;
    But some folks call her"Gallie."
    From head to feet
    She's never neat,
    But always shilly shally.



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