Poppies are the flowers that bring sleep you know.

Before long, the poppy maids would fade away and others would take their places. The dead ones were quietly buried near their friends, and soon after, at sunset, their colors were seen in the sky, as were those of many dead and gone, hollyhock and morning-glory ladies. None of these ever lived to be very old.


Poppy Lullaby

Dainty Poppy maidens,

From Dreamland far away,

Gather round baby’s cradle

In your garments gay.

Gentle Poppy maidens,