Re: What little boys are made of
Posted by glo on March 29, 2001 at 13:04:12:
In Reply to: What little boys are made of posted by Peter Pawinski on March 28, 2001 at 07:25:51:
What are little boys made of, made of?
What are little boys made of?
Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails;
That's what little boys are made of.
This is only of the stanzas connected with "What Are Folks Make Of" - which has accumulated 13 stanzas: babies, boys, girls, young men, young women,sailors, soldiers, nurses, fathers, mothers, old men, old women, all folks. As with many Mother Goose rhymes, various publishers have printed various versions - of varying lengths.
Though no proof exists, the belief persists that the "boys" and "young women" stanzas were written by English poet and historian Robert Southey, at about 1820. Halliwell collected a version in 1842.
For more details and the entire 13 stanzas, see "Mother Goose: from Nursery to Literature" by Gloria T. Delamar.
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