GOOD-NIGHT.
Good-night, good-night, the day is done;
Rock, rock the cradle, little one;
The lamp is low, and low the sun,
Good-night!
Good-night, good-night, the Christmas bough
Bends to the rocking wind, and thou
To mother's ditty noddest now,
Good-night!
Good-night, good-night, the holy day
Bring baby sweets, and sweets alway!
Rock, rock—then, tiptoe, steal away,
Good-night!
H. S. M.
END OF BOOK III.
Transcriber's Notes:
A number of the poems contain archaic and varied spelling. This has been left as printed, with the exception of the following few printer errors:
Page [51]—nothin.' amended to nothin'.—"Jes sayin' nothin'. That was why ..."
Page [59]—joyfulst amended to joyful'st—"So, now is come our joyful'st feast,"
Page [70]—convivo amended to convivio—"Quot estis in convivio."
Illustrations have been shifted slightly, so that they are not in the middle of poems. Captions have been added from the List of Illustrations. The first illustration was located as a frontispiece in the book, but has been moved closer to the page number given in the List of Illustrations here.
Page [97] contains the line "Bears home the huge unwieldly logs,"—unwieldly may or may not be a printer error, so it has been left as printed.