Volume 10 — LITTLE BOPEEP AND LITTLE BOY BLUE
Reading edition
BY SAMUEL MINTURN PECK
It happened one morning that Little Bopeep, While watching her frolicsome, mischievous sheep Out in the meadow, fell fast asleep. By her wind-blown tresses and rose-leaf pout, And her dimpling smile, you'd have guessed, no doubt, 'Twas love, love, love she was dreaming about. As she lay there asleep, came little Boy Blue, Right over the stile where the daisies grew; Entranced by the picture, he stopped in the dew. So wildly bewitching that beautiful morn Was Little Bopeep that he dropped his horn And thought no more of the cows in the corn. Our sorrows are many, our pleasures are few; O moment propitious! What could a man do? He kissed the wee lassie, that Little Boy Blue! At the smack the woolies stood all in a row, And whispered each other, "We're clearly de trop; Such conduct is perfectly shocking—let's go!"