The Bugs’ Tea Party

The Bugs’ Tea Party.
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Little Miss Cricket, she gave a tea party
Out under the haystack Inst night;
A toadstool was able to serve for the table,
And glow worms stood round for the light.

Old Mrs. Spider, the spinner of linen,
Sent a tea cloth, all covered with lace;
And the tea service old was of buttercup
gold, With a goblet of dew at each place.

Gaudy-winged Butterfly came in her satins, Grasshopper Green with his fiddle and drum:
And up from the clover, the whole meadows over,
In gay yellow gowns did the honeybees come.
Little Miss Cricket, when supper was eaten.
With bold Mr. Firefly led in the ball;
And they danced all night with the glow worms for light
The moths and the bees and the crickets and all.
-Carolyn S. Bally