Minnie And Winnie

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Minnie and Winnie
     Slept in a shell.
Sleep, little ladies!
     And they slept well.
Pink was the shell within,
     Silver without;
Sounds of the great sea
     Wander'd about.
Sleep, little ladies!
     Wake not soon!
Echo on echo
     Dies to the moon.
Two bright stars
     Peep'd into the shell.
"What are you dreaming of?
     Who can tell?"
Started a green linnet
     Out of the croft;
Wake, little ladies,
     The sun is aloft!

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