Jean-François Millet, French
Little Bo Peep Letting Everyone on Facebook Know She Found Her Sheep, 1863
Oil on canvas
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Info, or perhaps links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here (archived if necessary), here, here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, here, here (archived if necessary), here, here (archived if necessary), here, here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated French Wikipedia page has more).
/// The young shepherdess with her flock knits,
while her dog, all around the flock, flits.
If she counted her sheep
she would fall fast asleep,
so she looks the wrong way, she admits.
/// Agnes knows that she’s bad at this task,
and she says so to any who ask.
All the sheep herding’s done
by her dog on the run.
Meanwhile Agnes just sips from a flask.
/// While she leans on her shepherding staff,
Agnes frets she’s committed a gaffe.
By hook or by crook
she must make herself look
at the flock— it sounds smaller by half.
/// Agnes fears she’ll be told to have paid
for the lost sheep which somehow have strayed.
If she had enough wool
she’d try knitting some full-
-size sheep outfits for wolves that have preyed.
/// With some luck, those wolves might be mistaken
for the same sheep they’d recently taken.
(Of course, this crazy scheme
was just Agnes’s dream
from which she’d soon, embarrassed, awaken.)