When I came forth this morn I saw

When I came forth this morn I saw
    Quite twenty cloudlets in the air; 
And then I saw a flock of sheep,
    Which told me how these clouds came there.

That flock of sheep, on that green grass,
    Well might it lie so still and proud! 
Its likeness had been drawn in heaven,
    On a blue sky, in silvery cloud.

I gazed me up, I gazed me down,
    And swore, though good the likeness was, 
'Twas a long way from justice done
    To such white wool, such sparkling grass.

by William Henry Davies (1871-1940) , "The likeness", from New Poems, published 1907

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by Michael Head (1900-1976) , "When I came forth this morn I saw", published 1929 [voice and piano], from Songs of the Countryside, no. ?

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