do-you-know-how-low

Updated: May 26, 2025

The day he got up and said, 'Have-you-heard-the-waters-singing-little-May where-the-willows-green-are-bending-over-the-way do-you-know-how-low- and-sweet-are-the-words-the-waves-repeat to-the-pebbles-at-their-feet night-and-day?" David laughed at the girl's droll imitation, the way she sing-songed the verse in the exact manner prevalent in many rural schools.

Anna Balmer Myers - Patchwork: A Story of 'The Plain People'