XXX THE LAMPLIGHTER My tea is neatly the window to see Leerie going by Y tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; For every night at teatime and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street. Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea, For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door, And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more; And O! before you hurry by with ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night! Μ MY BED IS A BOAT Y bed is like a little boat; M Nurse helps me in when I embark; She girds me in my sailor's coat At night, I go on board and say Good-night to all my friends on shore; I shut my eyes and sail away And sometimes things to bed I take, All night across the dark we steer; XXXII THE MOON HE moon has a face like the clock in the hall; THE She shines on thieves on the garden wall, The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse, All love to be out by the light of the moon. But all of the things that belong to the day THE SWING OW do you like to go up in a swing, How Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and au Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown Up in the air I go flying again, - |