Little Bo-Peep
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And can’t tell where to find them;
Leave them alone, and they’ll come home,
And bring their tails behind them.
Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamt she heard them bleating;
But when she awoke, she found it a joke, For they were still all
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
their tails behind them.It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray
Into 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 went rambling,
And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should, To tack again each
to its lambkin.