SLEEPING CHILD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

SLEEPING CHILD.

HI I like to tiptoe, round her ■when i] / she's lying fast asleep [3 And l straighten out the covers E \vhero she kicked them in a !heap, And when I find her sprawling kitty-corner on the bed I find it fun to set aright that lovely sleepy-liead. Oh, whether late or early I'm retiring for the night. , I slip into her bedroom just to see that 6he's all right; I stand and gaze upon her and I chuckle when I see Her feet are on the pillow where j|] her little head should bo. {a 1 She's grown so very lively that [3 she can't stay still at all. H The moment that she drops asleep j-g she starts right then to crawl, [3 And sometimes, like a woolly dog, as comfy as you please, [lj /I've found her lost in dreamland g with her head between her Ej knees. [§j Oh, I have tasks that weary me, and tasks that I detest, Ej The mother's always calling me HI to work when 1 would rest; [jD But straightening out a little [3 girl who's sleeping wrong-end [a I'd call the happiest task on j|j >/ earth a father has to do.