A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Little Bo-Peep

by Sabine Baring-Gould

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LITTLE BO-PEEP

XLVI. LITTLE BO-PEEP

 

Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep,
And can't tell where to find them;
Let 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 woke, she found it a joke,
For they were still a-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 she did stray
Into a meadow hard by;
There she espied their tails side by side,
All hung on a bush to dry.