I remember it from childhood, and I am using it in a storytime for children at the library soon.
Full poem linked here for reference: here The second poem on the list is a variant, but the one I’m specifically remembering is listed further down the page, right underneath the Dandelion Haiku.
I need to write it up in the parent’s handout, and want to make sure my credits are correct - but I’m not having any luck sourcing an author on the wide internets - everywhere has it as uncredited or as Author Unknown.
I know LOTS of the old mother goose-style poems and nursery rhymes really *are *Author Unknown, but I wouldn’t have pegged this one as quite that old, and also I don’t trust the wide internets to actually care enough to cite things proper.
Anyone got a Child’s Garden of Verses or old Mother Goose or a Nursery Rhyme Treasury they can check for this oldie and see if there is an author credit for it? I would trust one of those much more than I do the internets in general.
Many thanks for any assistance rendered!