Seven Times Four

HEIGH-HO! Daisies and buttercups, Fair yellow daffodils stately and tall! Whenthe wind wakes, how they rock in the grasses, Anddance with the cuckoo-buds slender and small! Here's two bonny boys, and here's mother's own lasses, Eager to gather them all. Heigh-ho ! Daisies and buttercups ! Mother shall thread them a daisy chain; Sing them a song of the pretty hedge-sparrow, That loved her brown little ones, loved them full fair; Sing, "Heart thou art wide, though the house be but narrow," Sing once, and sing it again. Heigh-ho! Daisies and buttercups, Sweet wagging cowslips, they bend and they bow; Aship sails afar over warm ocean waters, Andhaply one musing doth stand at her prow. Obonny brown sons, and O sweet little daughters, Maybe he thinks on you now. Heigh-ho! Daisies and buttercups, Fair yellow daffodils stately and tallAsunshiny world full of laughter and leisure, And fresh hearts unconscious of sorrow and thrall ! Send down on their pleasure smiles passing its measure, God that is over us all !