XXX THE LAMPLIGHTER Y tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; 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! MY BED IS A BOAT Y bed is like a little boat; MY 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; T's moon has a face is on the card in wall, On streets and fields and harbour quays, 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 all Till I look down on the garden green, Up in the air I go flying again, |