A PASTORAL.

boy with stick walking behind cow

Thesun was shining calm and bright,The meadow grass was deep;The daisies and the buttercupsWere nodding, half-asleep.And overhead the sparrows satAnd crooned upon the bough,And all the world was sleepy then,When Johnny drove the cow.The sun was like a flaming beast,The field was like the sea;The grass like angry snakes did hissAnd wriggle at his knee.The sparrows turned to goblin impsThat yelled, and fluttered on,As through a world, gone raving mad,The cow was driving John!

Thesun was shining calm and bright,The meadow grass was deep;The daisies and the buttercupsWere nodding, half-asleep.And overhead the sparrows satAnd crooned upon the bough,And all the world was sleepy then,When Johnny drove the cow.The sun was like a flaming beast,The field was like the sea;The grass like angry snakes did hissAnd wriggle at his knee.The sparrows turned to goblin impsThat yelled, and fluttered on,As through a world, gone raving mad,The cow was driving John!

Thesun was shining calm and bright,The meadow grass was deep;The daisies and the buttercupsWere nodding, half-asleep.And overhead the sparrows satAnd crooned upon the bough,And all the world was sleepy then,When Johnny drove the cow.

Thesun was shining calm and bright,

The meadow grass was deep;

The daisies and the buttercups

Were nodding, half-asleep.

And overhead the sparrows sat

And crooned upon the bough,

And all the world was sleepy then,

When Johnny drove the cow.

The sun was like a flaming beast,The field was like the sea;The grass like angry snakes did hissAnd wriggle at his knee.The sparrows turned to goblin impsThat yelled, and fluttered on,As through a world, gone raving mad,The cow was driving John!

The sun was like a flaming beast,

The field was like the sea;

The grass like angry snakes did hiss

And wriggle at his knee.

The sparrows turned to goblin imps

That yelled, and fluttered on,

As through a world, gone raving mad,

The cow was driving John!

cow chasing boy over brick wall


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