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NO MORE SWIMMIN' IN THE "OLD SHEEP HOLE"?
No more swimmin' in the "Old Sheep Hole"?
I can't think that is true!
No more chances to lay around and roll
In the sand like we used to do;
No more mud-slides, slippery and smooth?
I say, there's something wrong!
I guess half the town will pick up and move
If you don't change that old song.
No more swimmin' in "The Old Sheep Hole"?
Where the wind blows through the corn;
No more listenin' to the thunder roll
In the July thunder storm:
Where the warm rain falls on the water there
While your clothes are hid by the willow tree,
And a fresh, clean scent is in the air:
And your heart is as glad as a bird, and as free?
No more swimmin' in the "Old Sheep Hole?"
I've swum in lake and sea
Where the great surf swings and the huge waves roll
But "THE BIG GRAVE CREEK" for me!
No bathing suit was needed there;
You didn't blush, for you didn't care;
It wasn't too warm and it wasn't too cold
And it wasn't too deep for an eight year old!
No more swimmin' in "The Old Sheep Hole?"
I hope you'll change your mind!
If you do we'll all your name extoll
As the greatest of mankind.
For us old "Boys" who have gone away
Might want to come back and swim some day,
And of all the spots that we hold dear.
Is the "Old Sheep Hole" with the dog days near.
[On reading a notice in the Moundsville Echo that the boys of Moundsville are not to be permitted any longer to swim in "The Old Sheep Hole." Written about 1911 and included in The Old Wolf Spring and Other Home Poems.]
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