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

 A PLAINT

When I have grown a yard or so

I’ll be a pirate, that I know,

And capture on the stormy sea

Ships full of coffee and of tea.

For it is quite a shame, I think,

When such good things are had to drink

That only grown folks get a cup;

How glad I’ll be when I grow up!