GooD-niGhT anD GooD-MorninG

rook

oxen

curious

curtsied

bleat

Lucy

neighed

sewing

1. A fair little girl sat under a tree,

Sewing as long as her eyes could see;

Then smoothed her work and folded it right,

And said, “Dear work, good-night, good-night!”

2. Such a number of rooks came over her head,

Crying, “Caw! Caw!” on their way to bed;

She said, as she watched their curious flight,

“Little black things, good-night, good-night!”

3. The horses neighed, and the oxen lowed,

The sheep’s “Bleat! Bleat!” came over the road;

All seeming to say, with a quiet delight,

“Good little girl, good-night, good-night!”

4. She did not say to the sun, “Good-night! ”

Though she saw him there like a ball of light;

For she knew he had God’s time to keep

All over the world, and never could sleep.

5. The tall pink foxglove bowed his head;

The violets curtsied, and went to bed;

And good little Lucy tied up her hair,

And said, on her knees, her favorite prayer.

6. A nd, while on her pillow she softly lay,

She knew nothing more till again it was day,

And all things said to the beautiful sun,

“Good-morning, good-morning! our work is begun.”

(MONCKTON MILNES, LORD HOUGHTON)

Find words in the poem to tell what each animal does:

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