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  Those little curly-pated elves,

  Blest in each other and themselves,

    Right pleasant ’tis to see

  Glancing like sunbeams in and out

  The lowly porch, and round about

    The ancient household tree.

  And pleasant ’tis to greet the smile

  Of her who rules this domicile

    With firm but gentle sway;

  To hear her busy step and tone,

  Which tell of household cares begun

    That end but with the day.

  ’Tis pleasant, too, to stroll around

  The tiny plot of garden ground,

    Where all in gleaming row

  Sweet primroses, the spring’s delight,

  And double daisies, red and white,

    And yellow wall-flowers grow.

  What if such homely view as this

  Awaken not the high-wrought bliss

    Which loftier scenes impart?

  To better feelings sure it leads,

  If but to kindly thoughts and deeds

    It prompt the feeling heart.