Jemima is my name, But oh, I have another; My father always calls me Meg, And so do Bob and mother; Only my sister, jealous of The strands of my bright hair, 'Jemima - Mima - Mima!' Calls, mocking, up the stair.
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Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Mima", appears in Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, in 1. Up and Down, no. 23, first published 1913 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Emeléus , "Mima", published 1960 [ girls' chorus and piano ], from The Huntsmen [sung text not yet checked]
- by Howard D. McKinney (b. 1890), "An Introduction", published <<1940, from Four Crumbs from "A Peacock Pie" [sung text not yet checked]
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