Walt Whitman's Niece Paroles

And would not have walked up the stairs,
Not to say which stairs,
If there had not been two girls,
Leaving out the names of those two girls.

I recall a door, a big long room,
I'll not tell which room,
I remember a big blue rug,
But I can't say which rug,
A girl took down a book of poems,
Not to say which book of poems
And as she read I laid my head,
And I can't tell which head,
Down in her lap, and I can mention which lap

My seaman buddy and girl moved off
After a couple of pages and there I was,
All night long, laying and listening
And forgetting the poems.
And as well as I could recall, And a book of this kind
A long long time to find its way back