Where I do hold my little swaÿ.

An' childern dear to my heart's core,

A-sleep wi' little heavèn breast,

That pank'd by day in plaÿ, do rest

Wi' moonlight on the door.

But still 'tis good, woonce now an' then

To rove where moonlight on the land

Do show in vaïn, vor heedless men,

The road, the vield, the work in hand.

When curtains be a-hung avore