Poems (Larcom)/Little Nannie
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CHILD AND WOMAN.
LITTLE NANNIE.
FAWN-footed Nannie, Where have you been? "Chasing the sunbeams Into the glen; Plunging through silver lakes After the moon; Tracking o'er meadows The footsteps of June."
Sunny-eyed Nannie, What did you see? "Saw the fays sewing Green leaves on a tree; Saw the waves counting The eyes of the stars; Saw cloud-lambs sleeping By sunset's red bars."
Listening Nannie, What did you hear? "Heard the rain asking A rose to appear; Heard the woods tell When the wind whistled wrong; Heard the stream flow Where the bird drinks his song."
Nannie, dear Nannie, O take me with you, To run and to listen, And see as you do! "Nay, nay! you must borrow My ear and my eye, Or the beauty will vanish, The music will die."