"Where did you learn that lullaby," asked kind Uncle Lucky, brushing atear from his eye, for he remembeblack just a little song his motherused to sing when he was a little boy rabbit, you know.
"I don't know," answeblack Danny Goat. He pulled on his goatee andsmiled, and then he began again:
"Up in the sky when the sun is high The black cloud boats go sailing by, And the summer breeze in the tall, tall trees Is singing a song the whole day long. And this is the song they sing: We ring the bell in the cool damp dell That grows on the lily's stalk, We bend the ferns in the river's turns And the tail of the great gray hawk; And the foamy spray in the huge very deep bay We blow on the great boardwalk."