H. H. BASHFORD
Reading edition
AUTHOR OF
"THE CORNER OF HARLEY STREET" ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
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.