Riley farm-rhymes . GRIGGSBYS STATION PAPS got his pattent-right, and rich as all creation ;But wheres the peace and comfort that we all hadbefore ?Les go a-visitin back to Griggsbys Station—Back where we ust to be so happy and so pore! The likes of us a-livin here ! Its jest a mortal pityTo see us in this great big house, with cyarpets on thestairs,And the pump right in the kitchen ! And the city ! city !city!—And nothin but the citv all around us everwheres! 83 GRIGGSIiV S STATION Climb clean above the roof and look from the steeple,And never see a robin, nor a beech or cllnm tree ! And righ
Riley farm-rhymes . GRIGGSBYS STATION PAPS got his pattent-right, and rich as all creation ;But wheres the peace and comfort that we all hadbefore ?Les go a-visitin back to Griggsbys Station—Back where we ust to be so happy and so pore! The likes of us a-livin here ! Its jest a mortal pityTo see us in this great big house, with cyarpets on thestairs,And the pump right in the kitchen ! And the city ! city !city!—And nothin but the citv all around us everwheres! 83 GRIGGSIiV S STATION Climb clean above the roof and look from the steeple,And never see a robin, nor a beech or cllnm tree ! And right here in ear-shot of at least a thousan people,And none that neighbors with us or we want to go andsee 1 Les go a-visilin back to Criggsbys Station— where the latcli-slrings a-liangin from the door, And e\-er neighbor round the jilace is dear as a relation—Ikack where we ust to l)c so happy and so pore! T want to sec the Wiggenscs, the whole kit-and-bilin,iV-drivin up from Shallor Ford to sla}- the Su
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