Brown and furry Caterpillar in a hurry, Take your walk To the shady leaf, or stalk, Or what not,

My baby has a mottled fist, My baby has a neck in creases; My baby kisses and is kissed, For he’s the very thing for kisses…

Minnie and Mattie And fat little May, Out in the country, Spending a day. Such a bright day,

Ah! changed and cold, how changed… With stiffened smiling lips and co… Changed, yet the same; much knowin… This was the promise of the days o… Grown hard and stubborn in the anc…

Hopping frog, hop here and be seen… I’ll not pelt you with stick or st… Your cap is laced and your coat is… Good bye, we’ll let each other alo… Plodding toad, plod here and be lo…

Baby cry — Oh fie! — At the physic in the cup: Gulp it twice And gulp it thrice,

The days are clear, Day after day, When April’s here, That leads to May, And June

Wee wee husband, Give me some money, I have no comfits, And I have no honey. Wee wee wifie,

‘Oh, sad thy lot before I came, But sadder when I go; My presence but a flash of flame, A transitory glow Between two barren wastes like sno…

Swift and sure the swallow, Slow and sure the snail: Slow and sure may miss his way, Swift and sure may fail.

What can lambkins do All the keen night through? Nestle by their woolly mother The careful ewe. What can nestlings do

Roses blushing red and white, For delight; Honeysuckle wreaths above, For love; Dim sweet—scented heliotrope,

A cold wind stirs the blackthorn To burgeon and to blow, Besprinkling half—green hedges With flakes and sprays of snow. Through coldness and through keenn…