The Tree Buds

Rock-a-by, baby,

Up in a tree,

Rock-a-by baby,

What can you see?

Little brown cradles?

Yes, that is all:

Little brown cradles

Never will fall.

Where are the babies?

Oh! they are there,

Tucked in their blankets

Away from the air.

Dear little nurslings,

Quiet all day,

In their green nightgowns

Folded away,

North wind is piping

Loud lullaby:

He couldn’t soften

His voice, did he try.

Sleep till the springtime

Brightens the sky.

Little leaf babies,

We love you. good-bye.

Kate Louise Brown

A Treasury of Verse for Little Children 1908, 1912.

Illustrated by Willy Pogány

produced by George G Harrap & Co., London, England.

Published 1923 by The Macmillan Company in New York .