Versos English Mary F. Butts Keeping Store

English poem

Keeping Store

by (1836–1902)

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We have bags and bags of whitest down Out of the milk-weed pods; We have purple asters in lovely heaps, And stacks of golden-rods—

We have needles out of the sweet pine woods, And spools of cobweb thread; We have bachelors' buttons for dolly's dress, And hollyhock caps for her head.