Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: II. For Children | | Pretty Cow | | Jane Taylor (1783–1824) |
| | | THANK you, pretty cow, that made | |
| Pleasant milk to soak my bread, | |
| Every day and every night, | |
| Warm, and fresh, and sweet, and white. | |
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| Do not chew the hemlock rank, | 5 |
| Growing on the weedy bank; | |
| But the yellow cowslips eat, | |
| That will make it very sweet. | |
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| Where the purple violet grows, | |
| Where the bubbling water flows, | 10 |
| Where the grass is fresh and fine, | |
| Pretty cow, go there and dine. | | | | |
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