Why thus so staid?

So sewing, so sewing, so sewing.

Is it stitching for somebody over the sea,

Or a slipper you’re making for impudent me?”

But without looking up she continued to be

Sewing, so sewing, so sewing.

And she sighed a deep sigh as

She sat on that seat

So sewing, so sewing, so sewing;

And her forehead was flushed with