CHARMS

I
FOR CORNS AND THINGS

Prune your corn in the gray of the morn

With a blade that’s shaved the dead,

And barefoot go and hide it so

The rain will rust it red:

Dip your foot in the dew and put

A print of it on the floor,

And stew the fat of a brindle cat,

And say this o’er and o’er:—