I had a penny, A bright new penny, I took my penny To the market square. I wanted a rabbit, A little brown rabbit, And I looked for a rabbit ’Most everywhere. For I went to the stall where they sold sweet lavender (“_Only a penny for a bunch of lavender!_”). “Have you got a rabbit, ’cos I don’t want lavender?” But they hadn’t got a rabbit, not anywhere there. [Illustration: Boy looking at fishmonger’s stall] I had a penny, And I had another penny, I took my pennies To the market square. I did want a rabbit, A little baby rabbit, And I looked for rabbits ’Most everywhere. And I went to the stall where they sold fresh mackerel (“_Now then! Tuppence for a fresh-caught mackerel!_”) “Have you got a rabbit, ’cos I don’t like mackerel?” But they hadn’t got a rabbit, not anywhere there. [Illustration: Boy beside saucepan stall] I found a sixpence, A little white sixpence. I took it in my hand To the market square. I was buying my rabbit (I do like rabbits), And I looked for my rabbit ’Most everywhere. So I went to the stall where they sold fine saucepans (“_Walk up, walk up, sixpence for a saucepan!_”). “Could I have a rabbit, ’cos we’ve got two saucepans?” But they hadn’t got a rabbit, not anywhere there. [Illustration: Boy watching rabbits] I had nuffin’, No, I hadn’t got nuffin’, So I didn’t go down To the market square; But I walked on the common, The old-gold common . . . _And I saw little rabbits ’Most everywhere!_ So I’m sorry for the people who sell fine saucepans, I’m sorry for the people who sell fresh mackerel, I’m sorry for the people who sell sweet lavender, ’Cos they haven’t got a rabbit, not anywhere there! [Illustration: Daffodils] DAFFODOWNDILLY She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind And curtsied up and down. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbour: “Winter is dead.” [Illustration: Fairy sitting on lilypad] WATER-LILIES