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JOSIE'S POEMS

Summer Poems for Children

By Josie Whitehead

Girls on Bicycles
PLAYING DONE
I'LL SLEEP INSTEAD


By Josie Whitehead
Playing Done, I'll Sleep Instead

In summer it’s not fair at all
That I should hear my mother call
     To say: 'It’s time to go to bed,'
     When I would rather play instead.

In summer I’m not tired at all,
And yet I hear her irksome call -
     And who would wish to go to bed
     When they could play outside instead?

In winter I don’t mind at all
And Mother never needs to call.
     For I look forward to my bed -
      All playing done, I’ll sleep instead.


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