Baby Seed Song

 by E. Nesbit
Little brown brother, oh! little brown brother,
Are you awake in the dark?
Here we lie cosily, close to each other :
Hark to the song of the lark -
"Waken!" the lark says, "waken and dress you ;
Put on your green coats and gay,
Blue sky will shine on you, sunshine caress you -
Waken! 'tis morning- 'tis May!"
Little brown brother, oh! little brown brother,
What kind of a flower will you be?

I'll be a poppy - all white, like my mother;
Do be a poppy like me.
What! You're a sunflower! How I shall miss you
When you're grown golden and high!
But I shall send all the bees up to kiss you;
Little brown brother, good-bye.
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