TO BED! TO BED!

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1931, Page 20 (Supplement)

TO BED! TO BED!

All the Wnds are singing softly, Twilight creeps Into wood and town and tree-top, Daylight sleeps. Listen to the thousand footsteps —all so slow; Listen—Mother Night is speaking, very low; “Sea birds shelter in your rocky holes and crags; Lions, leopards, little field-mice, great big stags— Seek your dens, and lairs, and burrows, before dark Hides the zig-zag way and overtakes the lark. Spatrows chirping on the chimney — go to bed! Spiders, leave off spinning in that shed! - Little frogs with eyes like jewels—• how they gleam — Hop beneath the weeds j and rushes near the stream. Snails and lizards, slugs and beetles, hurry! hurry! How you linger! How you dawdle! How you worry! (Butterflies, with wings like rainbows, never wait Till I call, and scold, and hurry—they’re not late — They all go to bed quite early, for they know Beauty sleep' will make their colours gleam and glow. Flowers fold your tired petals, shut your eyes Before I spread my spangled wings across the skies. Are you ready? Birds don’t wriggle in your nest; Go to sleep' and let your mothers have a rest! Q ne _t wo —three—I’m coming quickly —Wings are spread! * Scuttle, scamper, hurry, hasten—BED, TO BED!!