Subsequent versions of the poems have appeared in so many places that it was firmly regarded as public domain, despite Mary Frye's claims. Later it was printed on postcards by the Schwarzkopf family and was circulated in that fashion before it was ever conventionally printed. Mary has said she wrote it on a brown paper bag and that the words just came to her.
It is said that Mary wrote this for Margaret and that it was Mary's first real attempt at poetry. Margaret Schwarzkopf was visiting Mary Elizabeth Frye who was living in Baltimore USA when Margaret's mother died.
This is a version of a poem that, apparently was circulated as postcards printed by the Schwarzkopf family.
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