Yellow Dress

    By Janet Lee

    Mary had a yellow dress

    Bought from the department store.

    It looked as beautiful as the moon,

    And as bright as the sun.

    Mary wore all the time

    The yellow dress I felt so right.

   Every day from day to night

   I saw her in the dress so bright.

    "Buy me a yellow dress,"

    I cried to Mom and Dad,

    "As beautiful and bright

    As the dress the girl living near has!"

    I cried and cried and cried,

    Until they said with sad eyes,

    "We need food for your baby sister,

    And clothes for your coming brother."

    Since then I've learned

    Mary's yellow dress

    Is better to dream of

    Than to ask for.