Half-Past Bedtime - Sir H. H. Bashford

TO

JOE & ADA MAGGS

AND THE CHILDREN THAT LOVE THEM

When Farmer Sun with rosy wink
Says good-bye all, and drives away,
When safe in fold the sheep-bells clink,
And hard-worked horses munch their hay,
When brown and blue eyes sleepy grow,
And Nurse downstairs clears up the crumbs,
When God pulls down His blind, and so
What people call the twilight comes,
Then lazy Moon lifts up her arm,
Shakes back her hair and smooths her beams,
And softly over field and farm
Scatters the milk-white seed of dreams.

I.	[MR JUGG]
II.	[GWENDOLEN]
III.	[THE LITTLE ICE-MEN]
IV.	[UNCLE JOE'S STORY]
V.	[BEARDY NED]
VI.	[THE MAGIC SONG]
VII.	[THE IMAGINARY BOY]
VIII.	[THE HILL THAT REMEMBERED]
IX.	[ST UNCUS]
X.	[OLD MOTHER HUBBARD]
XI.	[MARIAN'S PARTY]
XII.	[THE SORROWFUL PICTURE]
XIII.	[THE MOON-BOY'S FRIEND]
XIV.	[THE CHRISTMAS TREE]