Once Upon a Time, and Other Child-Verses

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

THE OUT-DOORS GIRL.

SING a song of a queer little girl who lived

all alone in the green out-of-doors:

She made her a necklace of cranberries, and

a gown of the red corn-flowers,

And she made her a beautiful oak-leaf cap,

and a swing of a wild grape-vine;

And merrily-o all day she swung out of shade

into gold sunshine.