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Down by a shining water well / I found a very little dell, / No higher than my head.
The heather and the gorse about / In summer bloom were coming out, / Some yellow and some red.
I called the little pool a sea; / The little hills were big to me; / For I am very small.
I made a boat, I made a town, / I searched the caverns up and down, / And named them one and all.
And all about was mine, I said, / The little sparrows overhead, / The little minnows, too.
This was the world and I was king; / For me the bees came by to sing, / For me the swallows flew.
I played there were no deeper seas, / Nor any wider plains than these, / Nor other kings than me.
At last I heard my mother call / Out from the house at evenfall, / To call me home to tea.
And I must rise and leave my dell, / And leave my dimpled water well, / And leave my heather blooms.
Alas! and as my home I neared, / How very big my nurse appeared, / How great and cool the rooms!