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Way up at the top of a big stack of straw	A
Was the cunningest parlor that ever you saw	A
And there could you lie when aweary of play	B
And gossip or laze in the coziest way	B
No matter how careworn or sorry one's mood	C
No worldly distraction presumed to intrude	C
As a refuge from onerous mundane ado	D
I think I approve of straw parlors don't you	D
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A swallow with jewels aflame on her breast	E
On that straw parlor's ceiling had builded her nest	E
And she flew in and out all the happy day long	F
And twittered the soothingest lullaby song	F
Now some might suppose that that beautiful bird	G
Performed for her babies the music they heard	G
I reckon she twittered her repertoire through	D
For the folk in the little straw parlor don't you	D
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And down from a rafter a spider had hung	H
Some swings upon which he incessantly swung	H
He cut up such didoes such antics he played	I
Way up in the air and was never afraid	I
He never made use of his horrid old sting	J
But was just upon earth for the fun of the thing	J
I deeply regret to observe that so few	D
Of these good natured insects are met with don't you	D
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And down in the strawstack a wee little mite	K
Of a cricket went chirping by day and by night	K
And further down still a cunning blue mouse	L
In a snug little nook of that strawstack kept house	L
When the cricket went chirp Miss Mousie would squeak	M
Come in and a blush would enkindle her cheek	M
She thought silly girl 't was a beau come to woo	D
But I guess it was only the cricket don't you	D
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So the cricket the mouse and the motherly bird	G
Made as soothingsome music as ever you heard	G
And meanwhile that spider by means of his swings	N
Achieved most astounding gyrations and things	N
No wonder the little folk liked what they saw	A
And loved what they heard in that parlor of straw	A
With the mercury up to	D
In the shade I opine they just sizzled don't you	D
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But once there invaded that Eden of straw	A
The evilest Feline that ever you saw	A
She pounced on that cricket with rare promptitude	D
And she tucked him away where he'd do the most good	D
And then reaching down to the nethermost house	L
She deftly expiscated little Miss Mouse	L
And as for the Swallow she shrieked and withdrew	D
I rather admire her discretion don't you	D
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Now listen That evening a cyclone obtained	D
And the mortgage was all on that farm that remained	D
Barn strawstack and spider they all blew away	B
And nobody knows where they're at to this day	B
And as for the little straw parlor I fear	O
It was wafted clean off this sublunary sphere	O
I really incline to a hearty boo hoo	D
When I think of this tragical ending don't you	D

Eugene Field

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