NO BOY KNOWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 13

NO BOY KNOWS.

There are many things that boys may know, Why this and that are thus and so. Who made the world in the dark, and lit The great sun up to lighten it. Boys know new things every day. When they study, or when they play, When they idle, or sow, or reap; But no hoy knows when he goes to sleep. Boys avlio listen, or should, at least. May know that the round old Avorld rolls east. And know that the ice and the snow and the rain. Ever repeating their parts again. Are ali just AA r ater the sunbeams first Sip from the earth in their endless thirst, And pour again till the loav streams leap, But no boy knoAVs when he goes to sleep. O, I have folloAA'ed me, o’er and o’er, From the fragrant drowse on the parlour floor To the pleading voice of the mother, Avhen I even doubted I heard it then. To the sense of a kiss and a moonlit room. And deAvy odours of locust, bloom; A sweet white cot, and a cricket cheep; But no hoy Icuoavs Avhen he goes to sleep. —James W. Biley.