"Happy Easter" from the Bee
May all your Easter eggs be colored with the freshness and beauty of new life..
The Easter Bunny
A poem by M. Josephine Todd, 1909
There's a story quite funny, About a toy bunny, And the wonderful things she can do;Every bright Easter morning,Without warning,She colors eggs, red, green, or blue.
Some she covers with spots,Some with quaint little dots,And some with strange mixed colors, too-- Red and green, blue and yellow,But each unlike its fellow Are eggs of every hue.
And it's odd, as folks say,That on no other day In all of the whole year through,Does this wonderful bunny,So busy and funny,Color eggs of every hue.
If this story you doubt She will soon find you out,And what do you think she will do?On the next Easter morning She'll bring you without warning,Those eggs of every hue.
Peter Cottontail
By Beatrix Potter
Here comes Peter Cottontail,Hoppin' down the bunny trail,Hippity, hoppity,Easter's on its way.
Bring in' every girl and boy Baskets full of Easter joy,Things to make your Easter bright and gay.He's got jelly beans for Tommy,Colored eggs for sister Sue,There's an orchid for your Mommy And an Easter bonnet, too.
Oh, here comes Peter Cottontail,Hoppin' down the bunny trail,Hippity, hoppity,Happy Easter day.
Here comes Peter Cottontail,Hoppin' down the bunny trail,Look at him stop,And listen to him say:"Try to do the things you should."Maybe if you're extra good,He'll roll lots of Easter eggs your way.
You'll wake up on Easter morning And you'll know that he was there When you find those chocolate bunnies That he's hiding everywhere.
Oh, here comes Peter Cottontail,Hoppin' down the bunny trail,Hippity, hoppity,Happy Easter day.
Meeting the Easter Bunny
By Rowena Bennett, 1930
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-tispy, 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.
