Babes in the Woods

have you heard how a long time ago two tots whose name no one knows were stolen away on a bright summer’s day and left in the woods is what people say at night so sad was their plight when the sun went down and the moon gave no light they sobbed and they sighed and they bitterly cried then the poor little babes they laid down and died once dead the robin’s red brought strawberry leaves and over them spread and all night long the branches among they mourned as they whistled and this was their song