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James Whitcomb Riley - The Good, Old-Fashioned People
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When we hear Uncle Sidney tell
    About the long-ago
  An` old, old friends he loved so well
    When _he_ was young--My-oh!--
  Us childern all wish _we`d `a`_ bin
    A-livin` then with Uncle,--so
  We could a-kindo` happened in
    On them old friends he used to know!--
      The good, old-fashioned people--
      The hale, hard-working people--
      The kindly country people
        `At Uncle used to know!

  They was God`s people, Uncle says,
    An` gloried in His name,
  An` worked, without no selfishness,
    An` loved their neighbers same
  As they was kin: An` when they biled
    Their tree-molasses, in the Spring,
  Er butchered in the Fall, they smiled
    An` sheered with all jist ever`thing!--

      The good, old-fashioned people--
      The hale, hard-working people--
      The kindly country people
        `At Uncle used to know!

  He tells about `em, lots o` times,
    Till we`d all ruther hear
  About `em than the Nurs`ry Rhymes
    Er Fairies--mighty near!--
  Only sometimes he stops so long
    An` then talks on so low an` slow,
  It`s purt`-nigh sad as any song
    To listen to him talkin` so
      Of the good, old-fashioned people--
      The hale, hard-working people--
      The kindly country people
        `At Uncle used to know!
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