IN my little Green House, quite content am I,
When the hot sun pours down from the sky;
For oh, I love the country-the beautiful country.
Who’d live in a London street when there’s the country?
I live in a London street, then I long and long
To be the whole day the sweet Flowers among
Instead of tall chimney-pots up in the sky,
The joy of seeing Birds and Dragon Flies go by.
At home I lie in bed, and cannot go to sleep,
For the sound of cart-wheels upon the hard street.
But here my eyes close up to no sound of anything
Except it is to hear the nightingales sing.
And then I see the Chickens and the Geese go walking,
I hear the Pigs and the Ducks all talking.
And the Red and the Spotted Cows they stare at me,
As if they wondered whoever I could be.
I see the little Lambs out with their mothers-
Such pretty little white young sisters and brothers.
Oh, I’ll stay in the country, and make a daisy chain,
And never go back to London again.
(Kate Greenaway)
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