# Sing-Song: She’s Such a Senseless Wooden Thing - Source: Sing-Song (sing-song.gutenberg.org), Public domain, Christina Rossetti, pictures by Arthur Hughes, 1872, via Project Gutenberg - Reading level: Ages 4 to 6 - Subjects: Poems, Food, Animals - Topics: sure, honey, husband, money, bells, home - Length: 305 words, about 2 min - Original: - Page: - Open in Sprouts: She’s such a senseless wooden thing She stares the livelong day; Her wig of gold is stiff and cold And cannot change to grey. ## All the bells were ringing All the bells were ringing And all the birds were singing, When Molly sat down crying For her broken doll: O you silly Moll! Sobbing and sighing For a broken doll, When all the bells are ringing, And all the birds are singing. ## Wee wee husband Wee wee husband, Give me some money, I have no comfits, And I have no honey. ## Wee wee wifie Wee wee wifie, I have no money, Milk, nor meat, nor bread to eat, Comfits, nor honey. ## I have a little husband I have a little husband And he is gone to sea, The winds that whistle round his ship Fly home to me. ## The winds that sigh about me The winds that sigh about me Return again to him; So I would fly, if only I Were light of limb. ## The dear old woman in the lane The dear old woman in the lane Is sick and sore with pains and aches, We’ll go to her this afternoon, And take her tea and eggs and cakes. ## We’ll stop to make the kettle boil We’ll stop to make the kettle boil, And brew some tea, and set the tray, And poach an egg, and toast a cake, And wheel her chair round, if we may. ## Swift and sure the swallow Swift and sure the swallow, Slow and sure the snail: Slow and sure may miss his way, Swift and sure may fail. ## What does the bee do? What does the bee do? Bring home honey. And what does Father do? Bring home money. And what does Mother do? Lay out the money. And what does baby do? Eat up the honey. ## Picture credits - Arthur Hughes, Public domain () - Arthur Hughes, Public domain () - Arthur Hughes, Public domain () - Arthur Hughes, Public domain () - Arthur Hughes, Public domain () - Arthur Hughes, Public domain ()