outside the window i saw the clothesline full of old quilts and no two the same flopping and flying in the wind in the wind they were talking like women a working round a quilting frame
a midsummer circus of crazy colors their strange old names i could hear them call jacobs ladder drunkards path robbing peter to pay paul dusty miller ducks and ducklings woods in autumn wild geese flying
crazy ann and old log cabin puzzling patterns from a simpler time bits and pieces from bolts and boxes laid out straighter than a schoolbook rhyme strips cut out with a new made template scissors gleaming in the oil lamplight patient fingers taking tiny stitches in the stillness of a snowy night honeycomb harvest home maple leaf memory wreath
a stitch in time an apple a day a penny saved is a penny earned make it do or do without it these were the lessons that our old folks learned stored em away through a long hard winter but a season for growins come around once more our hands learn work their old tools teach us our feet hear music in their old wood floor eight hands round swing in the center texas star bucksaw
one more dance with your favorite partner one more chorus from the fiddlers bow follow the plow the pen the needle for one more year and down one more row the tree of life the hand of friendship stepping stones in an endless chain cut the strings that make you dance you will still be dancing just the same
save all mill wheel harvest sun crescent moon crosses and losses grandmothers flower garden forbidden fruit trees four little birds storm at sea pine tree barn raising horn of plenty hovering hawks cox comb home game of hearts hearts reel rose wreath oak tree temperance tree legacy lost ship babys blocks childrens delight cupids arrow lovers knot bachelors puzzle old maid dream hour glass moss rose rose in bud carolina rose prairie rose rose of sharon rose of dixie love rose stars within stars morning star shooting star evening star compass star wonder of the world wandering foot wonder of the sky wanderers path tree of life hand of friendship stepping stones endless chain
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