The Poetry Corner

Nursery Rhyme. LXVI. Tales.

By Unknown

[The following two stanzas, although they belong to the same piece, are often found separated from each other.] Robin and Richard were two pretty men; They laid in bed till the clock struck ten; Then up starts Robin, and looks at the sky, Oh! brother Richard, the sun's very high: The bull's in the barn threshing the corn, The cock's on the dunghill blowing his horn, The cat's at the fire frying of fish, The dog's in the pantry breading his dish.