There's the bell! the birds and beasts
Now are going to be fed;
So my little darlings, come,
It 's time for you to be abed.
"Mother, 't is n't nine o'clock!
You said we need n't go before;
Let us stay a little while,—
Want to see the monkeys more!"
Cries the showman, "Turn 'em out!
Dim the lights!—there, that will do;