Little Bo-Peep

Source

Source: Project Gutenberg #10607 Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10607 Public domain basis: Traditional rhymes in The Real Mother Goose, illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916), PG #10607. US public domain. Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition the-real-mother-goose at bytes 14373-15014; checksum 750c7a619b821d722534d000efd7cb2678071e9afa91a46a84c42e70ebf32800.

# Little Bo-Peep

Little Bo-Peep

Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep, And dreamt she heard them bleating; But when she awoke, she found it a joke, For still they all were fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook, Determined for to find them; She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed, For they'd left all their tails behind 'em!

It happened one day, as Bo-peep did stray Unto a meadow hard by-- There she espied their tails, side by side, All hung on a tree to dry.

She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye, And over the hillocks she raced; And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should, That each tail should be properly placed.

LITTLE BOY BLUE