the ant hills, while the cricket, full of joy, sang along the road:
“Zi zi zi and zi zi zi,
May our lord the king live joyfully,
And all his people as well as he.”
Merry have we met,
And merry have we been;
Merry let us part,
And merry meet again.
OLD RIME.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Silently corrected typographical errors.
2. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.