Dinah.

Dinah's cheeks are black as coal;
    Dinah's lips are red;
Dinah's eyes are bright, although
    Dinah's off to bed.

Dinah's bows are green and blue;
    Dinah's teeth are white;
Dinah's bottle's meant to feed
    Dinah in the night.

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I have seen full many a sight
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Golden lilies all a-dream,
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Veiled beneath the lacelike cloud;
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Brown arms buried elbow-deep
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There is a brown dolly
    Who has a guitar;
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The Sea-side Doll.

There's one doll for winter,
    When ice comes and snow;
Another for spring time,
    When primroses grow.

A dolly for dark nights,
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Mollie.

Mollie's frock is crimson,
    Her petticoat's of lace;
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    And curls about her face.

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Blue-Coat.

His dressing-gown's blue, and
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Dinah In Heaven

She did not know that she was dead,
But, when the pang was o'er,
Sat down to wait her Master's tread
Upon the Golden Floor,

With ears full-cock and anxious eye
Impatiently resigned;
But ignorant that Paradise
Did not admit her kind.

Persons with Haloes, Harps, and Wings
Assembled and reproved;
Or talked to her of Heavenly things,
But Dinah never moved.

There was one step along the Stair
That led to Heaven's Gate;
And, till she heard it, her affair
Was, she explained, to wait.

And she explained with flattened ear,
Bared lip and milky tooth,
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