You must ne’er think of looking for here.

For the window I love has no hangings of plush,

Neither festooned as if for display,

And yet I have seen it at evening’s soft hush

Decked out in a wond’rous array

Of cambrics and calicoes, sashes and curls,

Little aprons and many a toy—

More plainly to speak—there are three little girls,

And the king of the house is a boy.

How I love to halt here! With a satisfied look,