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Sweeping The Floor.

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Sweep and sweep and sweep the floor,         Sweep the dust, pick up the pin;     Make it clean from fire to door,         Clean for father to come in!     Mother said that God goes sweeping,         Looking, sweeping with a broom,     All the time that we are sleeping,         For a shilling in the room:     Did he drop it out of glory,         Walking far above the birds?     Or did parson make the story         For the thinking afterwards?     If I were the swept-for shilling         I would hearken through the gloom;     Roll out fast, and fall down willing         Right before the sweeping broom!

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