Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Alexander Pope.

GOOD-NIGHT AND GOOD-MORNING.

A fair little girl sat under the tree

Sewing as long as her eyes could see;

Then smoothed her work and folded it right,

And said, “Dear work, good-night, good-night!”

Such a number of rooks came over her head

Crying, “Caw, caw!” on their way to bed;