Rhymes of a Child's World by Miriam Clark Potter - HTML preview

 DUTCH KATRINA

Dutch Katrina is so good!

In the kitchen’s brightness

Makes us sugar things to eat,

Cakes of fairy lightness;

Keeps us laughing all the while

With a song or fable;

Tells us of the Tulip Land

As she lays the table.

Now the work is done tonight

And the fire is dying

When we come to look for you,

’Trina, you are crying!

Crying for the Tulip Land,

Shadows deep behind you;

’Trina, light the lamp and sing;

See, we came to find you!

All out doors is mine for play

Green miles without an end,

And each small cloud that floats this way,

My little cotton friend—