THE APPLE-GATHERING.
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, mellowFameuseFit 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 toWhen the winter wild sets in!Oh, if the apples Eve sawWere 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.
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, mellowFameuseFit 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 toWhen the winter wild sets in!Oh, if the apples Eve sawWere 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.
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, mellowFameuseFit 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!
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, mellowFameuse
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 toWhen the winter wild sets in!Oh, if the apples Eve sawWere 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.
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.