And rolling stones, if any you see;"

Just then the farmer went to bed,

And a singular voice replied overhead,

"Upidee, Upida."

"Oh, stay!" the maiden said, "and rest,

Your weary head upon this breast."

On his Roman nose a tear-drop come,

As he ever kep' a shoutin' as he upward clum,

"Upidee, Upida!"

About a quarter to six in the next forenoon