NO GOOD-NIGHT KISS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2161, 15 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

NO GOOD-NIGHT KISS.

, A three-year maid of baby charms, Epitome of bliss, At close of day to mother's arms Came for her good-night kit)*. "You were a naughty girl to-day, Who would not do the right ; The little girl who can't obey I cannot kiss good-night !" The little month, it trembled so ; ' The bright eye held a tear ; She said : " But will you Ids.-, mo, tbougb r • In the morning, mamma, dear?" '"Ye*, in the morning, when you call," Ah ! childish griefs are deep ! She turned her fair face to the wall A.nd wept herself to sleep. She' woke not here ; Death called her name ' To walk in Heaven instead ; And when at dawn the mother came, • She found her darling dead. O mother heart ! the wrong confessed, What is thine anguish now? She clasped the dead face to her breut r 1 Kissed lips and eyes and brow. ,0 grieving heart ? What can atone ? Mothers, remember this : ' Send no child to sleep's land unknown i Without a good-night kiss.