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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 still they all were 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 all their tails behind 'em!  It happened one day, as Bo-peep did stray    Unto 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 she raced;  And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,    That each tail should be properly placed.






Book: Reflection on the Important Things