"We've done, for a season, with row-de-dow-dow,
And there's no 'Bogey Man,' dears, to bother us now!"
Nurses, we know, find the "Black Man" most handy
To frighten their charges to quiet at times;
But now 'tis all "Hush-a-bye, Babes!" "Handy-pandy!"
And such soothing carols and quieting rhymes,
No need for a "black ugly thing in the garden"
To quiet these babes, thinks old Nana from Hawarden!
Alas, and alas! Bogey Men are such rum 'uns,
And some Ugly Things are "too previous," or worse.