The stars through the window, and listened with awe

To the sigh of the winds as they tremblingly crept

Through the trees where the robin so restlessly slept:

Where I heard the low, murmurous chirp of the wren,

And the katydid listlessly chirrup again,

Till my fancies grew faint and were drowsily led

Through the maze of the dreams of the old trundle-bed.

O the old trundle-bed! O the old trundle-bed!

With its plump little pillow, and old-fashioned spread;

Its snowy-white sheets, and the blankets above,