A pastoral rhyme about a maid minding the dairy while another hoes and mows the corn, singing all the while. A gentle, hardworking little scene.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
My maid Mary she minds the dairy,
While I go a-hoeing and mowing each morn;
Gaily run the reel and the little spinning wheel,
While I am singing and mowing my corn.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition