Black Sheep - an original poem

Unusually, I read a post, a story, which used images that I enjoyed. They were from Wikipedia Commons and that sent me browsing. I found this picture, which goes fine and dandy with an old poem of mine, from about 20 years ago ...

I was just reading it again a few days ago. Serendipity.

The Image

The Poem

Black sheep, black sheep, have you any wool,
To knit me a blanket and a rope to pull
A wagon of dreams over the hill
And down to the river and up to the mill?

I'll wear the blanket
When they're grinding up my dreams
And my precious preconceptions
Come apart at the seams.

So black sheep, black sheep,
Please help to keep me warm,
Because when my dreams are being ground,
I'll feel a bit forlorn.

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Image Source The Black Sheep, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose, by William Wallace Denslow.

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Thank you for reading, @richardjuckes