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Marigold garden : pictures and rhymes (1900)

Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901 · New York : Merrimack · leaf 47

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MY LITTLE GIRLIE. LITTLE girlie tell to meWhat your wistful blue eyes see:Why you like to stand so high,Looking at the far-off sky. Does a tiny Fairy flitIn the pretty blue of it?Or is it that you hope so soonTo see the rising yellow Moon ? Or is it—as I think Ive heard—Youre looking for a little… … WHAT did she see—oh, what did she see, What a fine turn out—from round about, As she stood leaning against the tree ? All the houses had let them out, Why, all the Cats had come to tea. And here they were with scamper and shout. Mew—mew—mew! was all they could say,And, We hope we find yoil well…

Children's poetry, English

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