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Pretty Cow

Jane Taylor 1783 (London) – 1824



Thank you, pretty cow, that made
Pleasant milk to soak my bread
Every day and every night,
Warm, and fresh, and sweet, and white.

Do not chew the hemlock rank,
Growing on the weedy bank;
But the yellow cowslips eat,
That will make it very sweet.

Where the purple violet grows,
Where the bubbling water flows,
Where the grass is fresh and fine,
Pretty cow, go there and dine.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme XXAA BBCC DDEE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 371
Words 71
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Jane Taylor

Jane Taylor was an English poet and novelist. She wrote the words to the song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", which is widely known, but it is generally forgotten who wrote it. more…

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