Clover Honey

                                    Cicely Mary Barker

MONDAY'S CHILD

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CLOVER HONEY

(A poem for small children)

Fairy Clover said to Bee

"Please save all that honey for me!

At breakfast time, when I have my toast,

I like the honey from clover most.

I don't like jam or marmalade;

Honey puts both of them in the shade.

Honey is golden, honey is sweet

Honey's a wonderful breakfast treat.
Work as hard as you are able
And then deliver it to my table."

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Said Bee " I don't much care about you.

A bee has better things to do,

Than worry about your breakfast food!

I think you're being rather rude!

I slave away from morn till night

Getting my honey-collecting right

In order to feed my baby bees

At home in the nest high in the trees.

Your breakfast doesn't matter to me!"

And he buzzed away very angrily!

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SUDDENLY, SILENCE

The cacophony of the busy street.
The blare of the traffic.
A glance to the left. Suddenly, silence.
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