RECORD: Darwin, Anne Elizabeth. n.d. Poem: Thank you, pretty cow. CUL-DAR210.13.2. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2026. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
Attributed to Anne Elizabeth Darwin. This is a poem by Jane Taylor.
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Thank you, pretty cow, that made
Pleasant milk to soak my bread,
Every day and every night,
Warm, and fresh, and sweet, and White.
Do not chew the hemlock rank,
Growing on the weedy bank;
But the yellow cowslips eat.
That will make it very sweet.
Where the purple violet grows
Where the bubbling water flows
Where the grass is fresh and fine
Pretty cow, go there and dine
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March 2 1851
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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