And the tricking song of a big, blue fly;

—Merely a fancy, and yet, ah me,

How often I’ve wondered where she can be.

There they mellow and there they brown,

Homely objects to folks from town;

Only some apples hung to dry

And doomed to be finally tombed in a pie.

ONLY HELD HIS OWN

Now there’s Hezekiall Adams—nicest man you

ever saw!