A LITTLE SONG FOR BEDTIME.
A little song for bed-time When, robed in gowns of white, All slecp3 r littjo chflclron Set sail acrofis the night For that pleasant, pleasant coontry Where the pretty dream-flowers blow., 'Twixt the sunset and the sunrise, For the Slumber Islands, oh I When the little ones get drowsy, And the heavy lids xlroop dow n To hide blue eyes and black eyes, Grey eyes and eyes of brown, A thousand boats for Dreamland Ane waiting m a row, And the feiryinen are calling For the Slumber Islands, oh ! ■Then the sleepy little children Fill the boats along the shore, And go sailing oft to Dreamland, And the dipping of the oar Tn the sea of sleep makes music That the children only know When they answer to the boatman's For the Slumber Islands, oh ! Oil, tafco a kiss, my darlings, Ere you sail away from me, In the boat of dreams that's waiting, To bear yrm o'er the, sea ; ■Take a kiss And give one, And then away you go, A-saahng into Dreamland For the Slumber Islands, oh 1
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, 17 September 1898, Page 7
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185A LITTLE SONG FOR BEDTIME. Waimate Daily Advertiser, 17 September 1898, Page 7
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