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Eugene Field - Shuffle-Shoo
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Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks
   Sit together, building blocks;
     Shuffle-Shoon is old and grey,
       Amber-Locks a little child,
     But together at their play
       Age and Youth are reconciled,
   And with sympathetic glee
   Build their castles fair to see.
   "When I grow to be a man"
  (So the wee one`s prattle ran),
    "I shall build a castle so—
     With a gateway broad and grand;
    Here a pretty vine shall grow,
      There a soldier guard shall stand;
  And the tower shall be so high,
  Folks will wonder, by-and-by!"
  Shuffle-Shoon quoth: "Yes, I know;
  Thus I builded long ago!
    Here a gate and there a wall,
     Here a window, there a door;
    Here a steeple wondrous tall
      Riseth ever more and more!
  But the years have levelled low
  What I builded long ago!"
  So they gossip at their play,
  Heedless of the fleeting day;
    One speaks of the Long Ago
     Where his dead hopes buried lie;
    One with chubby cheeks aglow
      Prattleth of the By-and-By;
  Side by side, they build their blocks—
  Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks.
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