Where he whistles at breezy, bracing morn,

When the buckwheat is ripe, and stacked is the corn:

"Bob White! Bob White! Bob White!"

Is he hailing some comrade as blithe as he?

Now I wonder where Robert White can be!

O'er the billows of gold and amber grain

There is no one in sight—but, hark again:

"Bob White! Bob White! Bob White!"

Ah! I see why he calls; in the stubble there

Hide his plump little wife and babies fair!