# Baby Bye

- Source: McGuffey's Second Reader (second-reader.gutenberg.org), Public domain, William Holmes McGuffey, 1879, via Project Gutenberg
- Reading level: Grades 1 and 2
- Subjects: Poems, Animals
- Topics: baby, flies, little, never, small, spiders
- Length: 135 words, about 1 min
- Original: <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14668>
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BABY BYE.

- Baby Bye,  
  Here's a fly;  
  We will watch him, you and I.  
  How he crawls  
  Up the walls,  
  Yet he never falls!  
  I believe with six such legs  
  You and I could walk on eggs.  
  There he goes  
  On his toes,  
  Tickling Baby's nose.
- Spots of red  
  Dot his head;  
  Rainbows on his back are spread;  
  That small speck  
  Is his neck;  
  See him nod and beck!  
  I can show you, if you choose,  
  Where to look to find his shoes,  
  Three small pairs,  
  Made of hairs;  
  These he always wears.
- Flies can see  
  More than we;  
  So how bright their eyes must be!  
  Little fly,  
  Ope your eye;  
  Spiders are near by.  
  For a secret I can tell,  
  Spiders never use flies well;  
  Then away,  
  Do not stay.  
  Little fly, good day.

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## Picture credits

- illustrator not named in this edition, Public domain (<https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14668>)