Kate Greenaway

1846-1901 / England

My Little Girlie

LITTLE girlie tell to me
What your wistful blue eyes see?
Why you like to stand so high,
Looking at the far off sky.

Does a tiny Fairy flit
In the pretty blue of it?
Or is it that you hope so soon
To see the rising yellow Moon?

Or is it–as I think I've heard–
You're looking for a little Bird
To come and sit upon a spray,
And sing the summer night away?
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