The Little Brown Owl

"Versified by Mrs. Clara Doty Bates.     Poor, pretty little thing she was,     The sweetest-faced of girls,     With eyes as blue as larkspurs,"

"Versified by Mrs. Clara Doty Bates.     A Wee, wee woman     Was little old Dame Fidget,     And she lived by herself     In a wee, wee room,"

"Little boys, sit still--     Girls, too, if you will--     And let me tell you of Jack and Jill;     For I think another     Such sister and b"

"By Susan Hartley     'Twas a good little lady fairy,     Who saddled her wee white mouse,     And rode away to the village,     Long miles from"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"