The Marzipan Man - Children’s rhyme (perhaps for a parent to say to an infant)

A little girl, she made a man;

she made him out of marzipan;

for eyes, she gave him chocolate chips

and split a cherry for his lips.

But when she came to hug him tight;

the man of marzipan took fright,

“Oh do not eat me up”, he said

and ran and hid beneath her bed.

“Don’t worry”, said the little girl

as, round his waist, her arms, she curled,

“I did not make a man to eat

for hugging him is far more sweet”.