Meeting the Easter Bunny
By Rowena Bennett, 1930
On Easter morn at early dawn
before the cocks were crowing
I met a bob-tail bunnykin
and asked where he was going
"Tis in the house and out the
house a-tipsy, tipsy-toeing,
Tis round the house and 'bout the house a-lightly I am going."
"But what is that of every hue
you carry in your basket?"
"Tis eggs of gold and eggs of blue;
I wonder that you ask it.
"Tis chocolate eggs and bonbon
eggs and eggs of red and gray, For every child in every house
on bonny Easter day."
He perked his ears and winked his
eye and twitched his little
nose;
He shook his tail - what tail he
had - and stood up on his
toes.
"I must be gone before the sun;
the east is growing gray;
Tis almost time for bells to
chime." -
So he hippety-hopped away.
