Wall-paper for a little girl's room

Little fat ducks and geese, wearing doll-bonnets tied under their chins,

go round the white border beside an old, old woman with a crook.

All this came out of an old-fashioned storybook.

Life will teach you how to walk; walking is a grace, my dear.

Little blue Dutch boys and little blue Dutch girls, too,

a-wearing little wooden shoes, wooden shoes of blue,

dance on the hillsides where daisies wink-a-wink,

where white-cupped tulips tip their cups for them to drink.

Life will teach a different dance, not on hills where daisies grow.

Life will teach you very much, dear, perhaps too much.