When the cows come home the milk is...

When the cows come home the milk is coming,
Honey's made while the bees are humming;
Duck and drake on the rushy lake,
And the deer live safe in the breezy brake;
And timid, funny, brisk little bunny,
Winks his nose and sits all sunny.

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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]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Edgar Leslie Bainton (1880 - 1956), "When the cows come home", published 1925 [voice and piano], from Kikirikee [ sung text not verified ]
• by Olive Woodman , "Bunny", published 1923, lines 5-6 [unaccompanied voice], from Songs of childhood [ sung text not verified ]

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