In the shade's where glory is!

That's jes' what I'd like to do

Stiddy fer a year er two!

Plague! ef they ain't somepin' in

Work 'at kindo' goes ag'in

My convictions!—'long about

Here in June especially!—

Under some old apple-tree,

Jes' a-restin' through and through,

I could git along without