My Kingdom

 Down by a shining water well 
I found a very little dell, 
No higher than my head.
 
The heather and the gorse about 
In summer bloom were coming out, 
Some yellow and some red.
 

I called the little pool a sea; 
The little hills were big to me; 
For I am very small.
 
I made a boat, I made a town, 
I searched the caverns up and down, 
And named them one and all.
 

And all about was mine, I said, 
The little sparrows overhead, 
The little minnows too.
 
This was the world and I was king; 
For me the bees came by to sing, 
For me the swallows flew.
 

I played there were no deeper seas, 
Nor any wider plains than these, 
Nor other kings than me.
 
At last I heard my mother call 
Out from the house at evenfall, 
To call me home to tea.
 

And I must rise and leave my dell, 
And leave my dimpled water well, 
And leave my heather blooms.
 
Alas! and as my home I neared, 
How very big my nurse appeared.
 
How great and cool the rooms!

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