STOP! STOP! PRETTY WATER
Reading edition
I.
"Stop! stop! pretty water," Said Mary one day, To a frolicsome brook That was running away.
II.
"You run on so fast! I wish you would stay; My boat and my flowers You will carry away."
III.
"But I will run after; Mother says that I may; For I would know where You are running away."
IV.
So Mary ran on; But I have heard say That she never could find Where the brook ran away.