The little boy stirred—then slept again.

"Ho! Buttercup! Buttercup! out of the corn!

Daisy! Clover-leaf! Silver-horn!"

She drove them all out and shut the gate;

Then little Boy Blue, with his curly pate,

Still troubled by nothing like cows or sheep,

She spied, 'neath the hay-stack, fast asleep.

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