THE APPLE-GATHERING.
Reading edition
Apples, apples, apples, Here they come tumbling down, Yellow, and white, and rosy, Crimson, purple, and brown; Seek-no-further and russet, Gilliflower, Jersey sweet, Strawberry, mellow Fameuse Fit for a king to eat; Pound royals, golden pippins, Spitzenbergs hard and red; Take care! get out of the way, there, Or they’ll plump, Cathump, On somebody’s head! Gather them into the baskets, Empty them into the bin; What a luscious store to go to When the winter wild sets in! Oh, if the apples Eve saw Were as handsome as some of these, How ever could she help saying— “I’ll take one, if you please”? Yellow, and white, and rosy, Crimson, purple, and brown, Apples, apples, apples, Here they come tumbling down.