Word count: 37

Song Cycle by Shena Eleanor Fraser (1910 - 1993)

?. Margaret has a milking-pail [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

Authorship

• by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [ author's text checked 1 time]

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Margaret has a milking-pail,
  And she rises early;
Thomas has a threshing-flail,
    And he's up betimes.
Sometimes crossing through the grass
  Where the dew lies pearly,
They say "Good morrow" as they pass
    By the leafy limes.

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