And set the cherry-boughs a-dancing.

How low he bent his handsome head

Before the fairy girl, and said "—

Sheep: Ba-a, ba-a! Who the day so sweetly

passes

As a lamb who never stops,

But from dawn to twilight crops

Clover-heads and dewy grasses?

"Well, by and by I think I'll be

A fairy prince as brave as he: