October 19. Story of the Day: All Gone

This is from The songs and music of Friedrich Froebel's Mother play (Mutter und kose lieder), edited by Susan Blow. This poem is by Emily Huntington Miller.

It is an example of a series of body parts used as the basis for a story/song.

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ALL GONE

All gone! the supper's gone!
Wliite bread and milk so sweet,
For baby dear to eat.

All gone! the supper's gone!
Where did baby's supper go?
Tongue, you had a share, I know.
Little mouth, with open lips.
Through your rosy gate it slips.
Little throat, you know full well
Where it went, if you would tell.

Little hands, grow strong;
Little legs, grow long;
Little cheeks, grow red:
You have all been fed.

(illustration from the book)