Little Bo-Peep

From Little Bo-Peep:

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And cannot tell where to find them; -
Leave them alone, and they'll come home
And bring their tails behind them.

Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamt she heard them bleating;
But when she awoke she found it a joke,
For still they were all fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,
Determined for the find them; -
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they'd left their tails behind them.