Chipmunk, chipmunk

Brian Holmes

Chipmunk, chipmunk, little and small,

Roll your stripes into a ball.

White horse, white horse, winter is warm

With a shaggy coat for wind and storm.

Owl, owl in the hemlock tree,

Hoot till morning for all of me.

Robber, robber, snug in your den,

Pick the bones of our old hen.

Lighthouse, lighthouse, tall by the shore,

Shine on the shipwreck no more.

Maple, maple over this roof,

What do you listen to, far off?

Train, train around Great Hill,

Whistle again and then be still.