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Crowd about me little children	A
Come and cluster 'round my knee	B
While I tell a little story	B
That happened once with me	B
	-
My father he had gone away	C
A sailing on the foam	D
Leaving me the merest infant	E
And my mother dear at home	D
	-
For my father was a sailor	F
And he sailed the ocean o'er	F
For full five years ere yet again	G
He reached his native shore	H
	-
And I had grown up rugged	I
And healthy day by day	C
Though I was but a puny babe	J
When father went away	C
	-
Poor mother she would kiss me	B
And look at me and sigh	K
So strangely oft I wondered	L
And would ask the reason why	K
	-
And she would answer sadly	B
Between her sobs and tears	M
You look so like your father	F
Far away so many years	N
	-
And then she would caress me	B
And brush my hair away	C
And tell me not to question	A
But to run about my play	C
	-
Thus I went playing thoughtfully	B
For that my mother said	O
YOU LOOK SO LIKE YOUR FATHER	F
Kept ringing in my head	O
	-
So ranging once the golden sands	P
That looked out on the sea	B
I called aloud My father dear	Q
Come back to ma and me	B
	-
Then I saw a glancing shadow	R
On the sand and heard the shriek	S
Of a sea gull flying seaward	L
And I heard a gruff voice speak	S
	-
Ay ay my little shipmate	T
I thought I heard you hail	U
Were you trumpeting that sea gull	V
Or do you see a sail	U
	-
And as rough and gruff a sailor	F
As ever sailed the sea	B
Was standing near grotesquely	B
And leering dreadfully	B
	-
I replied though I was frightened	W
It was my father dear	Q
I was calling for across the sea	B
I think he didn't hear	X
	-
And then the sailor leered again	G
In such a frightful way	C
And made so many faces	Y
I was little loath to stay	C
	-
But he started fiercely toward me	B
Then made a sudden halt	Z
And roared I think he heard you	A2
And turned a somersault	Z
	-
Then a wild fear overcame me	B
And I flew off like the wind	B2
Shrieking MOTHER and the sailor	F
Just a little way behind	B2
	-
And then my mother heard me	B
And I saw her shade her eyes	C2
Looking toward me from the doorway	C
Transfixed with pale surprise	C2
	-
For a moment then her features	D2
Glowed with all their wonted charms	E2
As the sailor overtook me	B
And I fainted in her arms	E2
	-
When I awoke to reason	A
I shuddered with affright	B2
Till I felt my mother's presence	F2
With a thrill of wild delight	B2
	-
Till amid a shower of kisses	Y
Falling glad as summer rain	G2
A muffled thunder rumbled	B2
Is he coming 'round again	G
	-
Then I shrieked and clung unto her	F
While her features flushed and burned	B2
As she told me it was father	F
From a foreign land returned	B2
	-
	-
	-
I said when I was calm again	G
And thoughtfully once more	H
Had dwelt upon my mother's words	H2
Of just the day before	H
	-
I DON'T look like my father	F
As you told me yesterday	B2
I know I don't or father	F
Would have run the other way	B2

James Whitcomb Riley

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