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English_Children_Stories_Poems, page : 749
"Why do you wear a scarf?" asked the one without,
the other little girl said without a doubt,
"Allah loves me to cover my hair
so that little boys won't stand and stare,
and when I grow up, what I really want to be
is a well dressed Muslim lady like my pretty Mummy!"
BUTTERFLY
Butterfly, butterfly
fragile little flutter-by,
you fly held in unseen Hands
across the fields and over the land.
the other little girl said without a doubt,
"Allah loves me to cover my hair
so that little boys won't stand and stare,
and when I grow up, what I really want to be
is a well dressed Muslim lady like my pretty Mummy!"
BUTTERFLY
Butterfly, butterfly
fragile little flutter-by,
you fly held in unseen Hands
across the fields and over the land.